--- title: If I have escaped without being frozen, there is no chance of my mel… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If I have escaped without being frozen, there is no chance of my melting.’ Who acts: I, chance, melting, my. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/137/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/) / 137 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 137 If I have escaped without being frozen, there is no chance of my melting.’ **Who acts:** I, chance, melting, my · **What happens:** escape, freeze, be, chance, melt This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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, chance, melting, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:20:137 # text = If I have escaped without being frozen, there is no chance of my melting.’ 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 escaped escape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 melting melting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **freeze** | gerund · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» | | 3 | **be** | present | no chance of my melting | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chance** | | my melting | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **melt** | | my | | | | | | nom melting «process transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/138/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/20/)