The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 16
“If I find you have deceived me, you are a dead man, said the herdsman; and they went out together.
Who acts: Wretch, you, dead man, traces · What happens: find, deceive, be, say, go out · To what, where: Wretch, dead man, herdsman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretch, you, dead man, traces), 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 | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 deceived | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deceived | aux |
| 7 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 find | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 deceived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 herdsman | det |
| 18 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Wretch | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deceive in a quote | present · perfect | you | Wretch | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | a dead man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | a dead man | the herdsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herdsman=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go out in a quote | past | traces = trace | out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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