The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 168
I will do everything in my power for you; for I am the King of the Mice, and if I perish the whole race will die out.’
Who acts: I, whole race · What happens: do, be, perish, die out · To what, where: everything, power
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whole race), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 King | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 King | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 do | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mice | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mice | det |
| 18 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 King | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 die | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 perish | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 perish | nsubj |
| 23 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 race | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 race | amod |
| 26 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 die | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | aux |
| 28 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 die | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | everything | my power for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | for the King; of the Mice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perish a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | die out | future | the whole race | 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 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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