The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 20
If he could only be hatched over again!'
What happens: hatch · To what, where: rest
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hatched | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hatched | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hatched | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 hatched | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hatched | aux:pass |
| 6 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 hatched | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatched | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | could · passive | rest | again | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
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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