The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 186
I will go at once, but only on condition that you shall carry the money home yourself, so that I may not be put to shame before my friends.’
Who acts: I, condition · What happens: go, carry, not put, shame · To what, where: condition, money, I
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, condition), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 condition | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 condition | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 condition | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 condition | case |
| 10 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 condition | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 carry | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 put | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 put | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 put | aux:pass |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 go | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 shame | mark |
| 28 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 put | xcomp |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 friends | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 friends | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 shame | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | condition | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry | shall | condition | the money | yourself obl; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 3 | not put | may · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shame | to-infinitive | before my friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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