The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 96

So now you know why, if you dive deep down below the cold surface of the water on a frosty day, you will find it comfortable and pleasant underneath, and be quite sorry that you cannot stay there.

Who acts: you · What happens: know, dive, find, be, not stay · To what, where: cold surface, water

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dive	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 dive	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 dive	nsubj
9	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
10	deep	deep	ADV	_	11 down	advmod
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 dive	advmod
12	below	below	ADP	_	15 surface	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surface	det
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 surface	amod
15	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dive	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surface	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dive	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dive	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 find	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pleasant	cc
30	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 comfortable	conj
31	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	30 pleasant	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sorry	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sorry	cc
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sorry	cop
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 sorry	advmod
36	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 stay	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 stay	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 stay	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 stay	advmod
41	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sorry	advcl
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stay	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	dive a condition, not said to happen	present	you		the cold surface of the water	day	down property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below surface=Location
3	find	future	you	water			comfortable property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is	infinitive	you not said here				sorry property	tree rules
5	not stay	can	you		there			vn exist-47.1 «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 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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