The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 13
And I should die, and so would your father, if anything should happen to you.'
Who acts: I, anything · What happens: die, happen · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anything), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 die | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 would | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 would | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 would | advmod |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 would | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 die | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 happen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | should | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | anything | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «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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