The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 70

I am no magician to bring these things to pass, but he says that if it does not happen he will have me dragged through the city at a horse’s tail till I die.”

Who acts: I, king, it, me · What happens: be, bring, pass, say, not happen, have · To what, where: magician, things, me, city · 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 (I, king, it, me), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 magician	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magician	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 magician	acl
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 things	det
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pass	mark
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bring	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magician	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 happen	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happen	nsubj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 happen	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 happen	advmod
20	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	csubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	obj
25	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 city	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 city	det
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dragged	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 tail	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tail	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 horse	case
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 city	nmod
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 die	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 die	nsubj
36	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dragged	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 magician	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 magician	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	I	no magician		tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive		this things		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	pass	to-infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not happen a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	future	king	me		tree rules
7	drag	participle	me not said here		the city at a horse's tail	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through city=Location
8	die	present	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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