The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 33
She answered as before, that he might stay on condition that he should do any work that she might set him to next morning.
Who acts: sight, brother · What happens: answer, stay, do, set · To what, where: condition, work
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, brother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 before | case |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 condition | case |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stay | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 work | det |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 set | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | aux |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 work | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 morning | amod |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | sight | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stay | might | brother | condition | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on condition=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | should | brother | any work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | set | might | sight | any work | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme he=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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