The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 17

“The Sultan will be here directly, and we must both be dead to receive him.”

Who acts: Sultan, we · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: Sultan

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, we), 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	_	6 here	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 here	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 here	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 here	cop
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	6 here	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dead	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dead	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 dead	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	aux
12	both	both	ADV	_	14 dead	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 here	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 receive	mark
16	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dead	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 receive	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	the Sultan		directly, here property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	must	we		both, dead property	tree rules
3	receive in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	Sultan		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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