The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 124
Lucky Luck says you will never have any living creature in your waters until someone is drowned in you.”
Who acts: Lucky Luck, you · What happens: say, not have, drown · To what, where: living creature, waters, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucky Luck, you), 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 | Lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Luck | amod |
| 2 | Luck | Luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 waters | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 waters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 creature | nmod |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 drowned | mark |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 drowned | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drowned | aux:pass |
| 17 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 drowned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Lucky Luck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not have | future | you | any living creature | your waters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | |||
| 3 | drown | present · passive | someone | in you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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