The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 97
If I had only had the luck to be thrown into the river on the side of the horse fair I might have made my fortune!
Who acts: I · What happens: have, throw, make · To what, where: luck, river, I
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 made | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 luck | det |
| 7 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 thrown | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thrown | aux:pass |
| 10 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 luck | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thrown | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thrown | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | xcomp |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | the luck | fair property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | the luck not said here | into the river result; on the side of the horse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into river=Result | |||
| 3 | make | might · perfect · passive | I | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=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 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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