The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 25
“If you succeed,” he added, “you shall be my steward, but if you fail, I will put you to death on the spot.”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: succeed, add, be, fail, put · To what, where: steward, you, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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 | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 succeed | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 added | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 added | nsubj |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steward | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 steward | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 steward | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 steward | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 steward | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steward | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 added | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fail | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fail | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 put | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | aux |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 steward | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 death | case |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 spot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spot | det |
| 30 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | king | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | you | my steward | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | future | king | you | the spot | to death | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on spot=Destination |
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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