The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 56

‘Unless I were to leave off work earlier in summer, I will not do a stroke more than I have promised, and that is from dawn to dark; so you know what you have to expect.’

Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: leave off, not do, promise, be, know, have · To what, where: work, stroke, I · 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, that, 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	_	2 Unless	punct
2	Unless	unless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 leave	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Unless	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 leave	compound:prt
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
9	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 leave	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Unless	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stroke	det
18	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 do	obj
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 promised	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promised	nsubj:pass
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 promised	aux
23	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 more	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dawn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dawn	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 dawn	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dawn	cop
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 dawn	case
29	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 dark	case
31	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dawn	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 know	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 know	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 know	nsubj
35	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Unless	parataxis
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 have	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 know	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 expect	mark
40	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 have	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Unless	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Unless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave off	past	I	work	summer	early property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	not do	future	I	a stroke			tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		I			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	that		from dawn	to dark	tree rules
5	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	present	you				tree rules
7	expect	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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