The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 51
“We should certainly both be put to death if I did any such thing.”
Who acts: father · What happens: put, do · To what, where: We, such thing
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | should · passive | We | to death; both, certainly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the father = father | any such thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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