The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 37
If she was to live a hundred years she’d never forget how she wakened next morning, and found her husband looking down on her with misery and anger in his face.
Who acts: joy, hundred years · What happens: be, have, not forget, waken, find, look down · To what, where: hundred years, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, hundred years), 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 live | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ’d | nsubj |
| 10 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 years | acl:relcl |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 forget | advmod |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’d | xcomp |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wakened | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wakened | nsubj |
| 15 | wakened | waken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forget | ccomp |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wakened | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 found | advcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 looking | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 misery | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 misery | nmod:poss |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 misery | case |
| 28 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 anger | cc |
| 30 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 misery | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 face | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 face | nmod:poss |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | joy | year | live property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | joy | hundred years not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not forget | infinitive | hundred years not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | waken | past | joy | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | past | joy not said here | joy's husband | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | ||||
| 6 | look down | gerund | joy not said here | in husband's face; on joy's misery and anger; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on misery=Theme |
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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