The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 102

But it is one thing to receive advice when we feel safe and comfortable, and quite another to be able to carry it out when some awful peril is threatening us.

Who acts: danger, we, another, awful peril · What happens: be, receive, feel, carry out, threaten · To what, where: one thing, advice, danger, us

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, we, another, awful peril), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 thing	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 receive	mark
7	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 feel	advcl
8	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receive	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 feel	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comfortable	cc
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 safe	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 able	cc
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 another	advmod
18	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	21 able	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 able	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	23 carry	compound:prt
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 threatening	advmod
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 peril	det
28	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 peril	amod
29	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threatening	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 threatening	aux
31	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 carry	advcl
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 threatening	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	danger	one thing		tree rules
2	receive	to-infinitive	we not said here	advice		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
3	feel	present	we		safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	to-infinitive	another		able property	tree rules
5	carry out	to-infinitive	another not said here	danger		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	threaten	present · progressive	some awful peril	us		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer

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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