The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 69
It will be spoilt if I leave it now.’
Who acts: I · What happens: spoil, leave · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoilt | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 4 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoilt | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 leave | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoilt | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | future · passive | little | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave a condition, not said to happen | present | I | little | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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