Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 16

What if the bow-man's hand should tremble?

Who acts: hand · What happens: tremble

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 tremble	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bow	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tremble	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tremble	aux
10	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 What	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	should	the bow man's hand						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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