The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 145

‘Not to give myself unnecessary work; when I pull up one, all the others will come up too.’

Who acts: I, others · What happens: not give, pull up, come up · To what, where: unnecessary work, myself, one

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 (I, others), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 give	iobj
6	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 pull	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 pull	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 pull	nsubj
11	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 pull	compound:prt
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pull	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 others	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 others	det
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pull	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	too	too	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not give	to-infinitive		unnecessary work	myself	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient work=Theme
2	pull up	present	I	one		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	come up	future	all others			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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