The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 33

I am small and weak, but who knows whether some day I shall not be able to reward you.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, know, not be, reward · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 small	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 weak	cc
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 knows	cc
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	conj
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 able	mark
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 able	obl:unmarked
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 able	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knows	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 reward	mark
19	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 reward	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			small property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here				tree rules
3	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	shall	I		day	able property	tree rules
5	reward	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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