The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 130

You talk so much that you would be sure to confide the secret to somebody, and then we should have had our trouble for nothing, besides running the risk of our necks being broken by the farmer.

Who acts: You, we, farmer, our · What happens: talk, be, confide, have, run, break · To what, where: secret, somebody, trouble, risk, necks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, farmer, our), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sure	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 confide	mark
11	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 secret	det
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confide	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 somebody	case
15	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 confide	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 had	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	aux
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 talk	parataxis
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 trouble	nmod:poss
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 nothing	case
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 had	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 running	punct
28	besides	besides	ADP	_	29 running	mark
29	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 had	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 risk	det
31	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 running	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 necks	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 necks	nmod:poss
34	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 risk	nmod
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 broken	aux:pass
36	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 necks	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 farmer	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 farmer	det
39	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 broken	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	You					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	you				sure property	tree rules
3	confide speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here	the secret	somebody			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to somebody=Recipient
4	have	should · perfect	we	our trouble		then	for nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
5	run	gerund	we not said here	the risk of our necks				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
6	break	gerund · passive	the farmer	our necks not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	trouble		our					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	risk			our necks				nom risk «state transitive»: of=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 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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