The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 111

‘If I had had my soul in my body they would certainly have killed me,’ groaned the giant.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, kill, groan · To what, where: soul, body, things, giant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	15 killed	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 killed	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 soul	nmod:poss
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 killed	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 killed	aux
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	15 killed	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 killed	aux
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 groaned	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 killed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 killed	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 groaned	punct
19	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 giant	det
21	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groaned	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	my soul	my body		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
2	kill	would · perfect · passive		things = thing		certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
3	groan	past		the giant			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent giant=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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