The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 29
As for the club, Kai, it would have been a burden for four of our warriors.
Who acts: club · What happens: be · To what, where: burden
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (club), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 club | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 club | det |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burden | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kai | punct |
| 6 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 club | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 club | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 burden | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 burden | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 burden | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 burden | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 burden | det |
| 13 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 four | case |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 burden | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 warriors | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 four | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 burden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would · perfect | club | a burden | as the club; for four of our warriors | tree rules |
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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