The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 82
‘If thy father had that rod, what would he do with it?’ asked the giant.
Who acts: father · What happens: have, do, ask · To what, where: rod, giant
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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 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 | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rod | det |
| 7 | rod | rod | 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 rod | appos |
| 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 asked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | thy father | that rod | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | would | father | that rod | with rod | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=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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