The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 39
And if he failed, his head would pay the penalty.
Who acts: man, head · What happens: fail, pay · To what, where: penalty
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pay | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 failed | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 failed | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | aux |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 penalty | det |
| 11 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | past | man | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay | would | man's head | the penalty | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=Asset |
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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