The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 45

Some one might try to take it from you on the road, while no one would suspect us.’

Who acts: one · What happens: try, take, suspect · To what, where: water, road, us

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suspect	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 suspect	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suspect	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 suspect	aux
18	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 suspect	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	might	some one				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	some one not said here	water	the road	from you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on road=Destination
3	suspect	would	no one	us			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Attribute

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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