The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 33
For he says, if I fail to do it, I shall die a horrible death.”
Who acts: task, I · What happens: say, fail, not do, die · To what, where: face, horrible death · 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 (task, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 says | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 fail | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fail | nsubj |
| 7 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fail | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fail | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 16 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 death | amod |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | task | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | I not said here | face | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | die | shall | I | a horrible death | tree rules |
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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