The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 80
If I return and find him gone, you will pay for it by a terrible death.”
Who acts: I, plenty, you · What happens: return, find, go, pay · To what, where: plenty
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, plenty, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 return | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 return | nsubj |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 find | cc |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | aux |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 death | amod |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | present | I not said here | plenty | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | participle | plenty not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay | future | you | for room; by a terrible death | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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