The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 68
Of course we can restore them to life at once, but they will have had a rare fright.’
Who acts: we, wives · What happens: restore, have · To what, where: wives, life, rare fright
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wives), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 restore | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 restore | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 restore | aux |
| 5 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 restore | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 restore | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 restore | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | aux |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 restore | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fright | det |
| 18 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fright | amod |
| 19 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 restore | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | can | we | wives = wife | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | future · perfect | wives = wife | a rare fright | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Patient |
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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