The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 4

If I once fall on the ground I shall never be found again, I am so fine!’

Who acts: I · What happens: fall, not find, be · To what, where: ground, I

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 fall	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fine	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 found	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ground	acl:relcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 found	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fine	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fine	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 fine	advmod
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	I		the ground		once property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
2	not find	shall · passive		I		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is	present	I				fine property	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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