The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 34
‘Oh!’ replied his wife, ‘when our daughter came home, did she not see the pack-saddle over her head, and she thought how dreadful it would be if it were to fall and kill her.’
Who acts: daughter, saddle · What happens: reply, come, not see, think, be, fall · To what, where: wife, pack saddle, head, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, saddle), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 saddle | det |
| 21 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saddle | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 pack | punct |
| 23 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thought | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 dreadful | advmod |
| 32 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 dreadful | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 be | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 dreadful | cop |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 fall | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fall | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fall | aux |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 fall | mark |
| 40 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 be | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 kill | cc |
| 42 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fall | conj |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 kill | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | farmer's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | our daughter | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | daughter | the pack saddle | daughter's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | daughter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | saddle | dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall a condition, not said to happen | past | saddle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | kill | infinitive | saddle not said here | daughter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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