The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 128
‘You come hurrying as if the whole house was about to fall.
Who acts: You, whole house · What happens: come, hurry, be, fall
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, whole house), 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 come | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 about | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 about | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 about | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hurrying | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fall | mark |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 about | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurry | gerund | You not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the whole house | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | the whole house not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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