Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 10
"And if you fail to do so, what then?" asked Philip.
Who acts: Philip · What happens: fail, not do, ask · To what, where: Philip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip), 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 | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fail | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fail | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fail | nsubj |
| 5 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fail | xcomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 fail | parataxis |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 what | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Philip | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive | Philip not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Philip | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent philip=Recipient clause=Topic |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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