The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 129
‘The sun would burn us, and the lions and the crocodiles would eat us up.
Who acts: sun, lions · What happens: burn, eat up · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, lions), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 burn | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burn | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burn | aux |
| 5 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 burn | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lions | det |
| 10 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crocodiles | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crocodiles | det |
| 13 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lions | conj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burn | parataxis |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 eat | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | would | the sun | us | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat up | would | the lions and the crocodiles | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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