The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 137
But if one of them glances at you, you will know that is the traitor.'
Who acts: one, you, that · What happens: glance, know, be · To what, where: traitor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, you, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 glances | mark |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 glances | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | glances | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 glances | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glances | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 traitor | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 traitor | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 traitor | det |
| 16 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance a condition, not said to happen | present | one of men | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the traitor | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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