The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 17

Well, know that neither I nor any of my family can die till I have worn out these needles in sewing.

Who acts: you, any, I · What happens: know, die, wear out · To what, where: needles, sewing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, any, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 die	mark
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	8 any	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 any	nsubj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 any	cc
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 die	nsubj:outer
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 family	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 any	nmod
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 worn	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 worn	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worn	aux
17	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 die	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 worn	compound:prt
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 needles	det
20	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 worn	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 sewing	case
22	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 worn	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	imperative	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	can	any			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	wear out	present · perfect	I	this needles	sewing	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent needle=Source

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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