The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 90
Bad people, if they were rolling stark naked in gold, would not be rich.
Who acts: people, Bad people · What happens: roll, not be · To what, where: Bad people, gold
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Bad people), 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 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rolling | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 rolling | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rolling | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rolling | aux |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 people | acl |
| 8 | stark | stark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 naked | amod |
| 9 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rolling | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rolling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rich | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 rich | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rich | cop |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | people | Bad people not said here | gold | naked property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme in gold=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | not is | would | Bad people | rich property | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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