The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 69
‘I don’t think you have every tried it, or you wouldn’t have let me go up first.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not think, try, not let, go up · To what, where: feeling, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tried | aux |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 tried | det |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 let | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 let | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | aux |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 go | compound:prt |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect | you | feeling | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not let | would · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go up | infinitive | you not said here | first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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