The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 157
I shall sink to the earth if I try to keep up with you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: sink, try, keep up
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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 | 3 sink | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sink | aux |
| 3 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sink | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 try | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 try | nsubj |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sink | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 try | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 keep | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sink | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | shall | I | to the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | keep up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | with you | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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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