The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 87

“I may not let you out,” replied the boy, “for if I do my stepfather says that I shall have to die a horrible death when he returns from the war.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not let out, reply, do, say, have, die · To what, where: you, stepfather, horrible death, war · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy), 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	_	5 let	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 let	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 says	advcl
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 stepfather	nmod:poss
20	stepfather	stepfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 says	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 die	mark
27	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 death	det
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 death	amod
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 die	obj
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 returns	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 returns	nsubj
33	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 die	advcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 war	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 war	det
36	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returns	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not let out in a quote	may	the boy = boy	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the boy = boy	my stepfather		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepfather=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	shall	the boy = boy			tree rules
6	die in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here	a horrible death		tree rules
7	return in a quote	present	boy		the war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial_Location

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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