More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 39
Unless thou canst answer me these questions three before a week is out, thy head will leave thy body;" and he turned away.
Who acts: Unless, head · What happens: answer, be, leave, turn away · To what, where: questions, me, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unless, head), 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 | Unless | unless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | obj |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 questions | det |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answer | obj |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 questions | flat |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 out | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 out | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 out | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 answer | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 leave | aux |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | can | Unless | this questions | me | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme question=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | Unless not said here | week | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | future | thy head | thy body | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn away in a quote | past | head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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