The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 38
She almost died of misery, and if her sisters had not held her up, she would have sunk to the ground and cut her head open.
Who acts: pig · What happens: die, not hold up, sink, cut · To what, where: sisters, head
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 (pig), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 misery | case |
| 5 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sunk | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sunk | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 held | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 held | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 held | advmod |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sunk | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sunk | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sunk | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sunk | aux |
| 20 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 died | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sunk | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cut | cc |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cut | obj |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cut | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | pig | of misery; almost property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer | ||||
| 2 | not hold up a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | pig's sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sink | would · perfect | pig | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cut | past | pig not said here | pig's head | open property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product |
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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