The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 74

‘I will see if I can break it.’

Who acts: I · What happens: see, break · To what, where: thread

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 break	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 break	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 break	aux
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 break	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	future	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	break a condition, not said to happen	can	I	thread					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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