The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 14
Then it will fall suddenly to earth, and they will be killed.
Who acts: wind · What happens: fall, kill · To what, where: prince
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 (wind), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fall | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 fall | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 killed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fall | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | future | wind | then | to earth; suddenly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | future · passive | prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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