The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 63
Never would you have seen your king again, if a young lute player had not delivered him.
Who acts: you · What happens: not see, not deliver · To what, where: king, young lute player
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 king | nmod:poss |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 delivered | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 delivered | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 player | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 player | amod |
| 13 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 player | compound |
| 14 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 delivered | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 delivered | advmod |
| 17 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | would · perfect | you | your king | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not deliver a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | a young lute player | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=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 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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