The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 48

Now, in order to prove the truth of your words, I am going to throw the ring from the princess’s finger into the brook, and if you do not find it before I come back from council, you will have to die a horrible death.”

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: prove, go, throw, not find, come back, have · To what, where: truth, ring, finger, council, horrible death

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 (I, you, your), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 prove	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 prove	mark
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 in	fixed
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prove	mark
6	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 words	nmod:poss
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 truth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 prove	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 throw	mark
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 finger	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finger	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 princess	case
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 brook	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 brook	det
27	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 find	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 find	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 find	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 find	advmod
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prove	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	obj
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 find	ccomp
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 council	case
41	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prove	parataxis
46	to	to	PART	_	47 die	mark
47	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 have	xcomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 death	det
49	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 death	amod
50	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 die	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive		the truth of your words		now		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
2	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw	to-infinitive	I not said here	the ring	the princess's finger		into the brook	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location into brook=Destination
4	not find a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	ring				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
5	come back	present	I		council			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from council=Initial_Location
6	have	future	you					tree rules
7	die	to-infinitive	you not said here	a horrible death				tree rules
8	word		your					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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