The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 17

“If the young couple does manage to escape the dangers of the bridge and the carriage, the king means to send them each a splendid gold embroidered robe.

Who acts: splendid gold · What happens: manage, escape, mean, send, embroider · To what, where: king, dangers, robe · 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 (splendid gold), 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	_	7 manage	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 does	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 couple	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 couple	amod
5	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 manage	aux
7	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 means	csubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 escape	mark
9	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 manage	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dangers	det
11	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 escape	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bridge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dangers	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carriage	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 carriage	det
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bridge	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 manage	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 manage	obj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 send	mark
23	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 means	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 send	obj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 gold	det
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 gold	det
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gold	amod
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 send	obj
29	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gold	acl
30	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 embroidered	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	manage in a quote	present · do-support		the king	tree rules
2	escape in a quote	to-infinitive		the dangers of the bridge and the carriage	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location
3	mean in a quote	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		dangers = danger	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination gold=Theme
5	embroider in a quote	participle	each splendid gold not said here	robe	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Product

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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