The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 61
‘If it had not had a knob on the top, then I had not got it,’ answered the king.
Who acts: Sword, I · What happens: not have, not get, answer · To what, where: knob, top, Sword, king
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 (Sword, 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 | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 had | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 got | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 knob | det |
| 8 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 got | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Sword | a knob | the top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Patient | |||
| 2 | not get | past · perfect | I | Sword | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
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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