The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 35
‘Everything would now be perfect if only we had a little better dwelling for summer.
Who acts: Everything, we · What happens: be, have, dwell
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, we), 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 | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 perfect | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 perfect | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 perfect | cop |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 better | obl |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 had | advmod |
| 14 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 better | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 summer | case |
| 16 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dwelling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Everything | now | perfect property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | we | well property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | we not said here | summer | vn exist-47.1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/35/