The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 307
‘They would have disappeared completely,’ said the pretended doctor, ‘if there did not exist something to counteract the effect.
Who acts: horns · What happens: disappear, say, pretend, not exist, counteract · To what, where: pretended doctor, something, effect · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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 | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 disappeared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doctor | det |
| 11 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 doctor | amod |
| 12 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exist | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 exist | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 exist | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 exist | expl |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 exist | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 exist | advmod |
| 19 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 exist | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 counteract | mark |
| 22 | counteract | counteract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 something | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 effect | det |
| 24 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 counteract | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | would · perfect | horns = horn | completely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the pretended doctor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not exist a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | something | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | counteract | to-infinitive | the effect | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effect=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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