The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 15
All this was very discouraging, but the king would not have minded if he had not lost that beautiful stag.
Who acts: this, king · What happens: be, not mind, not lose · To what, where: king, beautiful stag
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, king), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 discouraging | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 discouraging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discouraging | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 discouraging | advmod |
| 5 | discouraging | discouraging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minded | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 minded | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 minded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 minded | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 minded | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 minded | aux |
| 13 | minded | mind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 discouraging | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lost | advmod |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 minded | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 stag | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stag | amod |
| 21 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discouraging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | discouraging property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind | would · perfect · passive | the king | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not lose a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | king | that beautiful stag | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Eventuality |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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