The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 67
If the donkey had had a heart would she be here now?
Who acts: donkey · What happens: have, be · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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 | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 donkey | det |
| 3 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | aux |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 here | cop |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 heart | acl |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the donkey | a heart | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | would | donkey | a heart not said here | here 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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