The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 97
Ask her how it all happened, and if she convinces you I’ll pay for it with my life.’
Who acts: you, it, wife, I · What happens: ask, happen, convince, pay · To what, where: wife, you · 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 (you, it, wife, I), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | iobj |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 happened | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 happened | advmod |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pay | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pay | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 convinces | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 convinces | nsubj |
| 11 | convinces | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pay | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 convinces | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pay | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pay | aux |
| 15 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pay | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | it | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | convince a condition, not said to happen | present | wife | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pay | future | I | for pardon; with my life | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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