The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 108
Here can I think of no plan, so if anything is to kill me, it will kill me.’
Who acts: I, anything, plan · What happens: think, be, kill · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, anything, plan), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 think | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 plan | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 kill | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | can | I | here | of no plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | anything | kill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | future | plan | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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