The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 23

During that time my life is dependent on the little worm’s life, so that a bird can eat me, a child can pick me with the berries and trample under foot my thousand years of life.

Who acts: life, bird, child · What happens: be, eat, pick, trample · To what, where: life, me, foot

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, bird, child), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dependent	obl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dependent	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dependent	cop
7	dependent	dependent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 life	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 worm	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 worm	amod
11	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 life	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 worm	case
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dependent	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 eat	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dependent	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pick	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pick	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 pick	aux
26	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 eat	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pick	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 berries	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 berries	det
30	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pick	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 trample	cc
32	trample	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 pick	conj
33	under	under	ADP	_	34 foot	case
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trample	obl
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 years	nmod:poss
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 trample	obl:unmarked
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 life	case
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 years	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dependent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my life		the little worm's life	time	dependent property	tree rules
2	eat	can	a bird	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	pick	can	a child	me			with the berries	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	trample	present	a child not said here		foot	year		tree rules

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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