The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 96

“I will throw him up into the sky,” she said, “right to the back of the morning star, and if he falls down into this city, then he is mine.

Who acts: queen, death · What happens: throw up, say, fall down, be · To what, where: death, sky, right, city, queen · 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 (queen, death), 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 throw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
16	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 back	det
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 right	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 star	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 star	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 star	compound
23	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 back	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 falls	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 falls	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 falls	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 falls	nsubj
28	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 falls	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 city	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 city	det
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mine	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 mine	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mine	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 mine	cop
37	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 falls	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up in a quote	future	queen	death	the sky			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	queen	right to the back of the morning star				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	death				into this city result; down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result
4	is a in a quote	present	death	queen		then		tree rules

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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