The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 6

‘Well, you see, your majesty,’ replied Moti, ‘there are so many chances that I may fall off, and if I choose one of your fine big horses I shall have so far to fall that I shall probably break my leg or my arm, if not my neck, but if I fall off this little beast I can’t hurt myself much.’

Who acts: you, Moti, many chances, I, fine big horses · What happens: see, reply, be, fall off, choose, have · To what, where: majesty, one, fine big horses, leg, little beast, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Moti, many chances, 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	_	5 see	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 majesty	nmod:poss
8	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 choose	advcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chances	amod
19	chances	chance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 are	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fall	nsubj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fall	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fall	aux
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 chances	acl:relcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 fall	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 choose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 choose	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 choose	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 choose	nsubj
29	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	parataxis
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 choose	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 horses	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 horses	nmod:poss
33	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 horses	amod
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 horses	amod
35	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 horses	acl:relcl
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 far	advmod
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 fall	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 fall	mark
42	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 have	xcomp
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 break	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 break	nsubj
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 break	aux
46	probably	probably	ADV	_	47 break	advmod
47	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fall	advcl
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 leg	nmod:poss
49	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 break	obj
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 arm	cc
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 arm	nmod:poss
52	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 leg	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 neck	punct
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 neck	mark
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 neck	advmod
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 neck	nmod:poss
57	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 break	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 hurt	punct
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	70 hurt	cc
60	if	if	SCONJ	_	62 fall	mark
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 fall	nsubj
62	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 hurt	advcl
63	off	off	ADP	_	62 fall	compound:prt
64	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	66 beast	det
65	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 beast	amod
66	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fall	obl:unmarked
67	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 hurt	nsubj
68	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 hurt	aux
69	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	70 hurt	advmod
70	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 choose	conj
71	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	70 hurt	obj
72	much	much	ADV	_	70 hurt	advmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
74	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	your majesty			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majesty=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	past	Moti				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	does	present	many chances		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall off	may	many chances				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	I	one of your fine big horses			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	have	shall	I	your fine big horses not said here			tree rules
7	fall	to-infinitive	your fine big horses not said here			far property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	break	shall	I	my leg or my arm		my neck obl; probably property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
9	fall off a condition, not said to happen	present	I	this little beast			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	not hurt	can	I	myself			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=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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