The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 63
If we don’t reach the town while it is still daylight I shall leave you to shift for yourself.’
Who acts: we, town, I · What happens: not reach, be, leave, shift · To what, where: town, daylight, you
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 (we, town, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 reach | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 daylight | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 daylight | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 daylight | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 daylight | advmod |
| 12 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 daylight | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shift | mark |
| 18 | shift | shift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 yourself | case |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 shift | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | present · do-support | we | the town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | town | daylight | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | shall | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shift | to-infinitive | I not said here | for yourself | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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