The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 37

Now if a thunderbolt had fallen upon her from heaven it would not have frightened her more.

Who acts: thunderbolt · What happens: fall, not frighten · To what, where: pig, heaven, thunderbolt

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 (thunderbolt), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fallen	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 fallen	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thunderbolt	det
4	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fallen	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 heaven	case
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frightened	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 frightened	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 frightened	aux
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fallen	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frightened	obj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 frightened	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	a thunderbolt	pig		heaven	now		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient her=Extent from heaven=Initial_State
2	not frighten	would · perfect · passive		thunderbolt					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=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 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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