The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 108

‘How much of you will be left if you fall from here?’ asked the bird.

Who acts: you · What happens: leave, fall, ask · To what, where: you, bird

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 much	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 asked	ccomp
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 much	advcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 fall	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fall	nsubj
11	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 here	case
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fall	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 much	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 much	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	leave	future · passive		you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from here=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past			the bird	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

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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