The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 122

If you seek a way to die, or if you have not yet seen death, then is to-day the day for you to know what dying is.’

Who acts: you, day · What happens: seek, die, not see, be, know · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, day), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 seek	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 seek	nsubj
3	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 is	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seek	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 die	mark
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 death	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 death	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 seen	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seen	advmod
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 death	amod
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seek	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 day	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 day	cop
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	obl:unmarked
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	nsubj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 know	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 know	mark
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 day	acl:relcl
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 dying	obj
30	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 know	ccomp
31	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 is	punct
33	’	'	SYM	_	31 is	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seek a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a way		seen death obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	you not said here	a way not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	not see a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you		yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present			to day; then		tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	die	gerund					tree rules
7	be	present	the day				vn exist-47.1 «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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