The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 75
“I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my kindred can die till I have rooted up this great tree,” replied the king of the eagles.
Who acts: neither, king · What happens: condemn, do, die, root up, reply · To what, where: king, this, great tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither, king), 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 condemned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 condemned | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 condemned | aux:pass |
| 4 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 condemned | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 10 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 die | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 any | cc |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 I | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kindred | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kindred | kindred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 die | aux |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 condemned | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 rooted | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 rooted | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rooted | aux |
| 22 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 die | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 rooted | compound:prt |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 tree | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tree | amod |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rooted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 condemned | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
| 29 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 replied | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 eagles | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eagles | det |
| 34 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 king | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn in a quote | present · passive | the king of the eagles = king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | can | neither | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | root up in a quote | present · perfect | the king of the eagles = king | this great tree | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | the king of the eagles | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent 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: «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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