The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 218
If sand got into that, it would trouble you.’
Who acts: sand · What happens: get · To what, where: that
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 (sand), 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 got | mark |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trouble | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 trouble | aux |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 trouble | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trouble | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | sand | that | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into that=Destination |
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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