The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 40

‘I walk so fast that unless I tied up one leg I should be at the end of the earth in a bound.’

Who acts: I · What happens: walk, tie up, be · To what, where: one leg, end

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 walk	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 walk	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 tied	mark
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 tied	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tied	compound:prt
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 leg	nummod
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 end	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 end	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 end	cop
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 earth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 bound	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bound	det
24	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 earth	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	I			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tie up	past	I	one leg			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	is	should	I		at the end	of the earth in a bound	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 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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