The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 76

Yet, it is not too late, and if I were properly tended, in a week I could vie with any horse in the stables!’

Who acts: reason, I · What happens: not be, tend, vie · To what, where: I, stables

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 (reason, 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 late	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yet	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 late	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 late	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 late	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 late	advmod
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 vie	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vie	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 tended	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tended	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tended	aux:pass
13	properly	properly	ADV	_	14 tended	advmod
14	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 vie	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 week	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 week	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 week	det
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tended	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 vie	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 vie	aux
21	vie	vie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 late	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 horse	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vie	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 stables	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stables	det
27	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 vie	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	reason				late property	tree rules
2	tend a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		I		week	properly property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	vie	could	I		the stables		with any horse	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-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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