The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 100
I have two little sons at home, and they will die of hunger if I am not there to bring them food.”
Who acts: I, arrows · What happens: have, die, not be, bring · To what, where: two little sons, home, arrows
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, arrows), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sons | nummod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sons | amod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sons | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 die | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hunger | case |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 die | obl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 there | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 there | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 die | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 there | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | two little sons | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | future | arrows = arrow | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | I not said here | arrows = arrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination food=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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