The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 34
‘If you were to try from morning till night you couldn’t do it.
Who acts: you · What happens: try, not do · To what, where: care
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obl |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | you | morning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not do | could | you | care | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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