The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 20
‘“If I did not fear to distress thee too much, I would show thee what thou seekest.”
Who acts: man, thou · What happens: not fear, distress, show, seek · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, thou), 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 | _ | 7 fear | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
| 3 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fear | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fear | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fear | advmod |
| 7 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 distress | mark |
| 9 | distress | distress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fear | xcomp |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 distress | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distress | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fear | parataxis |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 show | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 seekest | obj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 seekest | nsubj |
| 20 | seekest | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear in a quote | past · do-support | this man = man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | distress in a quote | to-infinitive | this man = man not said here | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer much=Result | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | would | this man = man | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | present | thou | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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