The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 99
“Oh!” replied the man, “I am condemned to do this, for neither I nor any of my family can die till I have dug away the whole of this mountain and made it level with the plain.
Who acts: man, neither · What happens: reply, condemn, do, die, dig away, make · To what, where: man, this, whole, basket · 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 (man, neither), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 condemned | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 condemned | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 condemned | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 condemned | aux:pass |
| 12 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 condemned | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 die | mark |
| 18 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 die | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 any | cc |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 I | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 any | nmod |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 condemned | conj |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 dug | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 dug | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dug | aux |
| 30 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 die | advcl |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 dug | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 whole | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dug | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mountain | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 mountain | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whole | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 made | cc |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dug | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 made | obj |
| 40 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 made | xcomp |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 plain | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 plain | det |
| 43 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 level | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | condemn in a quote | present · passive | the man = man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | can | neither | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | dig away in a quote | present · perfect | the man = man | the whole | away property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | make in a quote | past | the man = man not said here | basket | level property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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