The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 15
‘Who knows if I should ever find the Golden Blackbird, even if I sought the whole world through for it.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, find, seek · To what, where: Golden Blackbird, whole world, world
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Blackbird | det |
| 10 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Blackbird | amod |
| 11 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 sought | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 sought | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | should | I | the Golden Blackbird | ever | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=Topic | |||
| 3 | seek a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the whole world | world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme through it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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