The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 210
And if they are not dead they are still living and ruling happily.
Who acts: heirs · What happens: not be, live, rule
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heirs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 living | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 dead | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dead | advmod |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 living | advcl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 living | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 living | aux |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 living | advmod |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ruling | cc |
| 12 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 living | conj |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 ruling | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | heirs = heir | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present · progressive | heirs = heir | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rule | gerund | heirs = heir not said here | happily property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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