The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 54

Only think! at the end of the tunnel the gutter discharged itself into a great canal; that would be just as dangerous for him as it would be for us to go down a waterfall.

Who acts: you, gutter, that, us · What happens: think, discharge, be, go down · To what, where: end, gutter, great canal, waterfall

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gutter, that, us), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 think	advmod
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tunnel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tunnel	det
9	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gutter	det
11	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discharged	nsubj
12	discharged	discharge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tunnel	acl:relcl
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 discharged	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 canal	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 canal	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 canal	amod
17	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discharged	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dangerous	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 dangerous	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 dangerous	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 dangerous	cop
22	just	just	ADV	_	24 dangerous	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 dangerous	advmod
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 think	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dangerous	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 be	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 be	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 dangerous	advcl
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 go	mark
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 be	ccomp
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 waterfall	det
37	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			at the end of the tunnel		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	discharge	past	the gutter	gutter	a great canal			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
3	is	would	that				for tunnel; dangerous property	tree rules
4	go down	to-infinitive	us	a waterfall			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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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