The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 18
“If you succeed in baking the bread you shall have my daughter to wife, but if you fail your head will pay for it.”
Who acts: you · What happens: succeed, bake, have, fail, pay · To what, where: bread, daughter, head
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 succeed | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 baking | mark |
| 6 | baking | bake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 succeed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bread | det |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 baking | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bread | acl:relcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wife | mark |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pay | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 pay | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fail | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 pay | advcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fail | obj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pay | aux |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 succeed | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed in a quote | present | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bake in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | you | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | pay in a quote | future | you not said here | for head | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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