The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 93
But this once I will allow you to cross into my kingdom, and we will decide by a wager whose he is.”
Who acts: this, we, Kingdom · What happens: allow, cross, decide, be · To what, where: you, kingdom, wager
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 (this, we, Kingdom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 allow | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 allow | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 allow | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | aux |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cross | mark |
| 9 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cross | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decide | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 decide | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 decide | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 decide | aux |
| 17 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wager | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wager | det |
| 20 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decide | obl |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 wager | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 is | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wager | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | future | this | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cross not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | my kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | decide | future | we | by a wager | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | present | Kingdom | a wager not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wager=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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