Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 176
If you touch her again, one of us shall never leave this spot."
Who acts: you, one · What happens: touch, not leave · To what, where: MIGNON, spot
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 touch | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 touch | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touch | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch a condition, not said to happen | present | you | MIGNON | again | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | not leave | shall | one of us | this spot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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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