The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 91
“We must all die,” answered the Sultan; but this was not the reply for which Abu Nowas had hoped.
Who acts: We, Sultan, this, Abu · What happens: die, answer, not be, hope · To what, where: reply · 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, Sultan, this, Abu), 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 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 reply | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 reply | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 reply | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reply | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 reply | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hoped | obl |
| 20 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hoped | nsubj |
| 21 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Abu | flat |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hoped | aux |
| 23 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 reply | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | 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 | answer speech: assert | past | the Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | this | the reply | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hope | past · perfect | Abu | for the reply | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme |
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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