The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 66
Indeed, if you came to think of it, the gift was worth nothing, as when her husband made it he was a bachelor, and since then he had been married, and she had never given her consent to any such thing.’
Who acts: you, gift, husband, wife · What happens: come, think, be, make, marry, not give · To what, where: nothing, noise, bachelor, husband, consent, such thing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gift, husband, wife), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nothing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothing | amod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bachelor | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bachelor | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bachelor | det |
| 26 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 married | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 married | cc |
| 29 | since | since | ADP | _ | 30 then | case |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 married | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 married | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 married | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 married | aux:pass |
| 34 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 given | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 given | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 given | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 given | aux |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 given | advmod |
| 40 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 married | conj |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 consent | nmod:poss |
| 42 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 given | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 thing | case |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 thing | det |
| 45 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 thing | amod |
| 46 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 given | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | you | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | of noise | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the gift | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | wife's husband | noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | husband | a bachelor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry | past · perfect · passive | husband | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not give | past · perfect | wife | wife's consent | any such thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to thing=Recipient | |||
| 8 | consent | wife | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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