The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 98
And even if they were finished, there would always be ME to eat.'
What happens: finish, be, eat · To what, where: cheeses, ME
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 finished | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 finished | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 finished | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 be | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 be | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 finished | conj |
| 12 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 be | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 be | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | cheeses = cheese | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | be | would | ME | there | always property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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