The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 53
It is enchanted, and whoever you sprinkle with the water will become a dead man at once, even if he had lived a thousand years.
Who acts: you, whoever, hurry · What happens: enchant, sprinkle, become, live · To what, where: corner, dead man
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, whoever, hurry), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 3 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 become | cc |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 become | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sprinkle | nsubj |
| 8 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprinkle | obl |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enchanted | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 become | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lived | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 lived | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 lived | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lived | aux |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 enchanted | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thousand | det |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | present · passive | corner | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sprinkle | present | you | with the water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | future | whoever | a dead man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | hurry | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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