The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 36
This I would have done to-night too, if you had not seized me with such force, and so broken the spell I was under.’
Who acts: This · What happens: do, not seize, break · To what, where: you, spell
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | 5 done | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 seized | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 seized | advmod |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seized | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 force | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 force | amod |
| 19 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 broken | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broken | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 broken | advmod |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spell | det |
| 25 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broken | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 under | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 under | cop |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 spell | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would · perfect | This | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not seize a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | you | with such force | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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