The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 60
If she had dared, she would have killed the sparrow then and there, but as it was she only ventured to slit its tongue.
Who acts: woman, it · What happens: dare, kill, be, slit · To what, where: woman, tongue
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, it), 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 | _ | 4 dared | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dared | aux |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 killed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dared | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 killed | aux |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrow | det |
| 11 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 killed | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 then | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ventured | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 ventured | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 ventured | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ventured | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ventured | cop |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ventured | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 ventured | advmod |
| 22 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 slit | mark |
| 24 | slit | slit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ventured | xcomp |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slit | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | woman | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | would · perfect · passive | woman | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer sparrow=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | it | venture property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slit | to-infinitive | Sparrow's tongue | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
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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