The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 10
Ah, if we had only a hot cup of coffee now, and a nice piece of white bread to dip into it!’
Who acts: we · What happens: have, dip · To what, where: hot cup, bread
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 cup | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cup | amod |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 coffee | case |
| 11 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | nmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 piece | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 piece | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bread | case |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bread | amod |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 dip | mark |
| 22 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 piece | acl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dip | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 piece | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | we | a hot cup of coffee | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dip | to-infinitive | we not said here | bread | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into 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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