The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 11
Now, if only I knew how I could take this treasure home with me----but I can never hope to hide it from my wife, and once she knows of it she’ll tell all the world, and then I shall get into trouble.’
Who acts: I, luck · What happens: know, take, not hope, hide, tell, get · To what, where: treasure, world, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, luck), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 knew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 knew | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 take | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 treasure | det |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 21 hope | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hope | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 hope | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hope | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 hope | advmod |
| 21 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knew | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hide | mark |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hope | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hide | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tell | cc |
| 30 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 32 knows | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knows | nsubj |
| 32 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | advcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knows | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | nsubj |
| 36 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | aux |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knew | parataxis |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 world | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tell | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 get | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 get | cc |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 get | advmod |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 get | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 get | aux |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 tell | conj |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 trouble | case |
| 48 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 get | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | could | I | this treasure | with me; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | not hope | can | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | treasure | from my wife | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | know | present | luck | of treasure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | future | luck | all world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | get | shall | I | trouble | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=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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