The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 31
Still, if I had the fellow, I would be at the trouble of cleaning it’; so he threw the shoe down again and went on.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: have, be, clean, throw down, go on · To what, where: fellow, trouble, rock, shoe
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trouble | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 trouble | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 trouble | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trouble | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 trouble | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trouble | det |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fellow | conj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 cleaning | mark |
| 16 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 trouble | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cleaning | obj |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cleaning | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 threw | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | nsubj |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shoe | det |
| 24 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 threw | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 threw | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 threw | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | the fellow and the trouble | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | would | I | the trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clean | gerund | I not said here | rock | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw down | past | man | the shoe | again | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 5 | go on | past | man not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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