The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 25
‘Unless the others exert themselves to the utmost, the house will be yours.’
Who acts: others, house · What happens: exert, be · To what, where: others, yours
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, 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 | _ | 5 exert | punct |
| 2 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 5 exert | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 others | det |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 exert | nsubj |
| 5 | exert | exert | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 exert | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 utmost | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 utmost | det |
| 9 | utmost | utmost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exert | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yours | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 yours | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 yours | cop |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 utmost | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exert | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exert | infinitive | the others | others = other | to the utmost | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | future | the house | yours | tree rules |
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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