The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 64

I think I shall succeed, but if I fail, I shall come home without more shame than my sisters.’

Who acts: I · What happens: think, succeed, fail, come · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 succeed	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 succeed	aux
5	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 fail	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 fail	nsubj
10	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fail	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	parataxis
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 shame	case
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 shame	amod
18	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 sisters	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sisters	nmod:poss
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shame	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	succeed	shall	I		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	I		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	shall	I	without more shame than my sisters; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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