The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 29

I am old, and--now that there is someone to take my place, I will confess it--I am afraid that my strength is not equal to the task that lies before me.

Who acts: I, someone, strength, task · What happens: be, take, confess, not be, lie · To what, where: place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, someone, strength, task), 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	3 old	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 confess	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 confess	cc
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 and	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 confess	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 is	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 confess	advcl
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 is	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 someone	acl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 place	nmod:poss
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 confess	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 confess	aux
19	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 old	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 confess	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 afraid	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 afraid	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	cop
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 equal	mark
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 strength	nmod:poss
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 equal	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 equal	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 equal	advmod
30	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 afraid	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 task	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 task	det
33	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 equal	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 lies	nsubj
35	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 task	acl:relcl
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 lies	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				old property	tree rules
2	be	present	someone		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	to-infinitive	someone not said here	my place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	confess	future	I	place		now		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	present	I				afraid property	tree rules
6	not is	present	my strength				to the task; equal property	tree rules
7	lie	present	the task			before me		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location

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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