English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 60
Had you a hundred thousand lives Ye couldn't spare any a one.
Who acts: Ye · What happens: have, not spare · To what, where: you, one
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ye), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Had | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lives | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | compound |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lives | nummod |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Had | obj |
| 7 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 spare | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 spare | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 spare | advmod |
| 10 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Had | parataxis |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spare | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not spare | could | Ye | any one | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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