The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 92

‘It was only a dog, then if it had been a wolf I certainly should have killed him....’

Who acts: matter, wolf · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: dog, wolf, I

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, wolf), 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	_	6 dog	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dog	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 dog	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wolf	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 wolf	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 wolf	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wolf	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wolf	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wolf	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wolf	det
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	appos
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 killed	nsubj:pass
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 killed	advmod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 killed	aux
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wolf	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 killed	obj
21	....	....	PUNCT	_	14 wolf	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 dog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	matter	a dog			tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	matter	a wolf	then		tree rules
3	kill	should · perfect · passive	a wolf not said here	I		certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

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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