The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 71
If there is any life in him that will bring it back.
Who acts: life, that · What happens: be, bring back · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, that), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 life | det |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | any life | there | in man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Location | |||
| 2 | bring back | future | that | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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