The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 24
Now yesterday was just my transformation day, and I was taken with the raspberry and would have been trampled to death if you had not saved my life.
Who acts: yesterday, you · What happens: be, take, trample, not save · To what, where: transformation day, I, life
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 (yesterday, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 day | advmod |
| 2 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 day | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 raspberry | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 raspberry | det |
| 15 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trampled | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 trampled | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trampled | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 trampled | aux:pass |
| 20 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 taken | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trampled | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 saved | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 saved | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 saved | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 saved | advmod |
| 27 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 trampled | advcl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saved | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | yesterday | my transformation day | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | I | with the raspberry | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | trample | would · perfect · passive | to death | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not save a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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