The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 106
And there lay the old man, quite dead, and no magic wand could restore him to life, even had they wished it.
Who acts: magic wand, joy · What happens: lay, restore, have, wish · To what, where: old man, man, life, wand
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic wand, joy), 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 | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dead | punct |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 dead | advmod |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 restore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 restore | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 wand | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wand | amod |
| 14 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restore | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 restore | aux |
| 16 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 restore | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restore | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wished | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the old man | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Result | ||||
| 2 | restore | could | no magic wand | man | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wish | past | joy | wand | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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