The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 87

But in reality he loved the tricks and danger, and life would have seemed very dull without them.

Who acts: Lad, life · What happens: love, have, seem · To what, where: tricks, reality

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 (Lad, life), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 loved	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 reality	case
3	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tricks	det
7	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loved	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 danger	cc
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tricks	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loved	conj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 have	ccomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 dull	advmod
17	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seemed	xcomp
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dull	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Lad	the tricks and danger	reality		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
2	have	would	life				tree rules
3	seem	past	life not said here			dull property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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