The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 55
‘You will never get over it,’ said she; ‘I am afraid you are going to die.’
Who acts: You, wool, I · What happens: not get, say, be, go, die · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wool, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 afraid | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | future | You | bed | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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