The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 5
‘Truly,’ said the giant, ‘I should find no difficulty in fighting thee, if it were not for that lion.’
Who acts: I, difficulty · What happens: say, find, fight, not be · To what, where: giant, difficulty, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, difficulty), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 difficulty | det |
| 14 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 fighting | mark |
| 16 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 difficulty | acl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 fighting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lion | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 lion | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lion | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lion | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 lion | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 lion | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 lion | det |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | truly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | should | I | no difficulty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | no difficulty not said here | thee | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | difficulty | for that lion | 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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