The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 43
After the thunder will come hail, so fierce that scarcely canst thou endure it and live, for the hailstones are both large and thick.
Who acts: thunder, thou, hailstones · What happens: come, endure, live, be · To what, where: hail, thunder
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 (thunder, thou, hailstones), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thunder | det |
| 3 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fierce | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fierce | advmod |
| 9 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 endure | mark |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 14 endure | advmod |
| 12 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 endure | aux |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 endure | nsubj |
| 14 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fierce | csubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 endure | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 live | cc |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 endure | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 large | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 large | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hailstones | det |
| 21 | hailstones | hailstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 large | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 large | cop |
| 23 | both | both | ADV | _ | 24 large | advmod |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 live | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thick | cc |
| 26 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 large | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | the thunder | hail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | endure | can | thou | thunder | scarcely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance | |||
| 3 | live | infinitive | thou not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the hailstones | both, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the hailstones not said here | 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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