The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 97
But if he should fall outside the walls, he shall belong to you.”
Who acts: death · What happens: fall, belong · To what, where: walls, you
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 belong | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fall | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 belong | advcl |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fall | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 belong | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 belong | aux |
| 12 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 belong | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 belong | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | should | death | the walls | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | ||||
| 2 | belong | shall | death | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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