The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 25
If I reveal the secret to anyone, it will be all up with us.’
Who acts: I · What happens: reveal, all up · To what, where: secret, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. 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 | _ | 3 reveal | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reveal | nsubj |
| 3 | reveal | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reveal | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 reveal | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reveal | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 all | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 all | aux:pass |
| 12 | all | all | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 all | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 all | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the secret | anyone | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | all up | future · passive | secret | with us | tree rules |
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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