The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 3
Now, unless you have been under the sea and beheld all the wonders that lie there, you can never have an idea what the Groac’h’s palace was like.
Who acts: wonders, you, palace · What happens: behold, lie, not have, be · To what, where: you, idea
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders, you, palace), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 beheld | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beheld | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 beheld | aux:pass |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 been | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beheld | cc |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 have | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 wonders | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wonders | det |
| 14 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beheld | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lie | nsubj |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wonders | acl:relcl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lie | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beheld | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 idea | det |
| 24 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 like | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Groac’h | det |
| 27 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 palace | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Groac’h | case |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 like | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | cop |
| 31 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 idea | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | all wonders | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not have | can | you | a idea | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | the Groac’h's palace | like property | 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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