The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 75

‘If your father had that stick, what would he do with it?’ asked he.

Who acts: father · What happens: have, do, ask · To what, where: stick, father

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	17 asked	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	advcl
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stick	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	your father	that stick			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
2	do	would	father	that stick		with stick	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	past			father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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