The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 44

He declared that we could not possibly get home safely unless I did as he told me.”

Who acts: sire, we, I · What happens: declare, not get, do, tell · To what, where: me · 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 (sire, we, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
7	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declared	ccomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	advcl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 did	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	sire			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not get	could	we		home, possibly, safely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	do a condition, not said to happen	past	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	sire	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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