The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 6
If you lie there any more, you will be buried in the snow, and no one will ever know what became of you.’
Who acts: you, one · What happens: lie, bury, know, become · To what, where: you, snow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 lie | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lie | advmod |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 lie | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buried | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 buried | aux:pass |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 buried | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 became | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 buried | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie a condition, not said to happen | present | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bury | future · passive | you | the snow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in snow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | future | no one | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | become | past | of you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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