The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 39
If we had only had a fierce watchdog he would have kept them away.’
Who acts: we · What happens: have, keep away · To what, where: fierce watchdog, deal
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 kept | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 watchdog | det |
| 7 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 watchdog | amod |
| 8 | watchdog | watchdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kept | aux |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 kept | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | we | a fierce watchdog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watchdog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep away | would · perfect · passive | deal | away property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute |
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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