The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 116

‘My bones are still sore from their blows, and had it not been for you I should indeed have fared badly.’

Who acts: bones, I · What happens: be, have, not be, fare, blow · To what, where: blows, blow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones, I), 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 sore	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bones	nmod:poss
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sore	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sore	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sore	advmod
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 blows	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 blows	nmod:poss
9	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sore	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sore	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	obj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 you	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 you	cop
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 had	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fared	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fared	aux
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	22 fared	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 fared	aux
22	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 had	conj
23	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 fared	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sore	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My bones		bones's blows	still	sore property	tree rules
2	have	past		blow				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not is	participle					for you	tree rules
4	fare	should · perfect	I				badly, indeed property	tree rules
5	blow		bones = bone					nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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