The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 97

‘Only that I am afraid that if I throw it you will never see another dawn.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, throw, not see · To what, where: death

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, 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 afraid	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	6 afraid	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 afraid	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 throw	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 throw	nsubj
10	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 throw	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	advcl
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 dawn	det
17	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			afraid property	tree rules
2	throw a condition, not said to happen	present	I	death			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not see	future	you		dawn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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