The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 28
If it should ever do so I shall instantly grow black.
Who acts: ray, I · What happens: do, grow
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ray, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grow | advcl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 grow | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 9 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 10 grow | advmod |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | should | ray | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | shall | I | black, instantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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