The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 137
If I have escaped without being frozen, there is no chance of my melting.’
Who acts: I, chance, melting, my · What happens: escape, freeze, be, chance, melt
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, chance, melting, my), 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 | _ | 4 escaped | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | aux |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 is | advcl |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 frozen | mark |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 frozen | aux:pass |
| 7 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 escaped | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 escaped | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 chance | det |
| 12 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 melting | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 melting | nmod:poss |
| 15 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chance | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | freeze | gerund · passive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no chance of my melting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chance | my melting | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | melt | my | nom melting «process transitive»: poss=agent |
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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