The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 17

‘The urn would have sung but she said she had a cold; she could not sing unless she boiled.

Who acts: beginning · What happens: sing, say, have, not sing, boil · To what, where: urn, cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 sung	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 urn	det
3	urn	urn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sung	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sung	aux
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sing	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sing	advmod
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sung	conj
19	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	21 boiled	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 boiled	nsubj
21	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	would · perfect · passive		the urn	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	beginning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	beginning	a cold	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
4	not sing speech: express	could	beginning		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	boil a condition, not said to happen	past	beginning		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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