The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 51

If you can find somebody else to ring the bells at midnight I am ready to begin work at dawn; but if you want me to ring them I must go on sleeping till noon at the very earliest.’

Who acts: you, somebody, I, me · What happens: find, ring, be, begin, want, go · To what, where: somebody, bells, work, me, sleeping

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 (you, somebody, I, me), 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	_	4 find	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 find	obj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 somebody	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ring	mark
8	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bells	det
10	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ring	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 midnight	case
12	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ready	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ready	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ring	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 dawn	case
20	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begin	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 go	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 want	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 go	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 want	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 ring	mark
28	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 want	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ring	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 sleeping	case
34	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
35	till	till	ADP	_	36 noon	case
36	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	40 earliest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earliest	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 earliest	advmod
40	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 go	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	you	somebody				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent somebody=Attribute clause=Theme
2	ring	to-infinitive	somebody not said here	the bells				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	is	present	I			midnight	ready property	tree rules
4	begin	to-infinitive	I not said here	work		dawn		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me				tree rules
6	ring not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	bells = bell				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
7	go	must	I		sleeping	noon	at the earliest	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=Location

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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