The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 109
But of course, if you like, I will throw the club into the moon.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, throw · To what, where: club, moon
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 throw | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 like | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 like | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | aux |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 club | det |
| 13 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throw | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 throw | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | throw | future | I | the club | into the moon result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer club=Theme into moon=Result |
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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