The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 50
The whole world would sink to idleness if men were not forced to earn their daily bread.
Who acts: whole world, men · What happens: sink, not force, not earn · To what, where: men, daily bread
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole world, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 world | amod |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sink | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sink | aux |
| 5 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 idleness | case |
| 7 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sink | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 forced | mark |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forced | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 forced | advmod |
| 12 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sink | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 earn | mark |
| 14 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forced | xcomp |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bread | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bread | amod |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earn | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | would | the whole world | to idleness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not force a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | men | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not earn | to-infinitive | men not said here | Hans's daily bread | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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