The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 127
“We must all die,” said he, and went back to the Sultan.
Who acts: We, porter · What happens: die, say, go back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, porter), 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 | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 die | advmod |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Sultan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sultan | det |
| 16 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | must | We | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | porter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | porter not said here | to the Sultan result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sultan=Result |
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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