The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 61
And if another should take my place in your heart--Well, at least I shall never know it.'
Who acts: another, I · What happens: take, not know · To what, where: place, heart, least
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another, I), 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 | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 3 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 take | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 know | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | another | my place | your heart | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in heart=Location | |||
| 2 | not know | shall | I | place | least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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