The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 17

‘’Tis a pity,’ said he, ‘if we’d let the piper run dry after such music; ‘twould be a disgrace to Iveragh, that didn’t come on it since the week of the three Sundays.’

Who acts: pity, that · What happens: say, have, let, run, be, not come · To what, where: piper, disgrace, Iveragh, music · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity, that), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 a	compound
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ’d	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 ’d	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 ’d	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’d	nsubj
13	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 run	parataxis
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ’d	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 piper	det
16	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
17	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 run	xcomp
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 music	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 music	amod
21	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 disgrace	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 disgrace	punct
24	twould	twould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 disgrace	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 disgrace	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 disgrace	det
27	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Iveragh	case
29	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 disgrace	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 come	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 come	advmod
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 disgrace	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 come	obl
37	since	since	ADP	_	39 week	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 week	det
39	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 Sundays	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Sundays	det
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 Sundays	nummod
43	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 week	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a pity						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	pity						tree rules
3	let	infinitive	pity not said here	the piper					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piper=Theme
4	run	present					after such music	dry property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a			a disgrace	Iveragh				tree rules
6	not come	past · do-support	that			music	week		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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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