The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 75
If she were not dumb and could defend herself, her innocence would be proved.’
Who acts: mother · What happens: not be, defend, prove · To what, where: mother, innocence
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 dumb | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dumb | advmod |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 defend | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 defend | aux |
| 8 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dumb | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 defend | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proved | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proved | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 proved | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 proved | aux:pass |
| 15 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 defend | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | mother | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defend | could | mother not said here | mother | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | prove | would · passive | mother's innocence | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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