The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 51

If it goes on like this I shall be starved.’

Who acts: mouse · What happens: go on, starve · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 goes	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 starved	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 goes	compound:prt
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 goes	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 starved	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 starved	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 starved	aux:pass
10	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 starved	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 starved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on a condition, not said to happen	present	mouse					like this	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	starve	shall · passive		I					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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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