The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 79

This has become such a habit with me that I don’t think I could break myself of it; and, of course, if I got rid of the guitar I could never bring her back to life again.’

Who acts: This, I · What happens: become, not think, break, get, not bring back · To what, where: habit, myself, impossible, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 become	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 habit	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 habit	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 habit	acl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 break	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 break	aux
16	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	ccomp
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 break	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 break	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	28 got	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 of	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 got	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	parataxis
29	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 got	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 guitar	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guitar	det
32	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 bring	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 bring	advmod
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 got	ccomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 life	case
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · perfect	This	such habit with me				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	such habit with me not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent habit=Attribute clause=Theme
3	break	could	I	myself			of habit	vn free-10.6.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer myself=Source of it=Theme
4	get a condition, not said to happen	past	I				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not bring back	could	I	impossible	life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Destination

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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