The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 13
If I were to send one of the ministers!--but I hardly know if I can depend on them.’
Who acts: I · What happens: send, know, depend · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 send | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 send | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 send | mark |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | advcl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 send | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ministers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ministers | det |
| 9 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 depend | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 depend | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 depend | aux |
| 19 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 depend | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send a condition, not said to happen | past | I | one of the ministers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | depend a condition, not said to happen | can | I | on ministers = minister | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on they=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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