The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 70
Well, if she had had a heart would she have come back a second time?
Who acts: donkey · What happens: come back
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 come | aux |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | would · participle · perfect | donkey | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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