The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 149
You are only a common mortal, who will have to die one day, and you cannot stay here any longer.
Who acts: You, common mortal · What happens: be, have, die, not stay · To what, where: common mortal
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, common mortal), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 mortal | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mortal | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 mortal | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mortal | det |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mortal | amod |
| 6 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mortal | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 die | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stay | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stay | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stay | advmod |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stay | advmod |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 stay | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mortal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a common mortal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | future | a common mortal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | a common mortal not said here | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | not stay | can | you | here | long property | 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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