The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 101

But the shepherd broke in with, “I do not fear a hundred deaths, and I will only say it if I may have the princess for my wife.”

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: break in, not fear, say, have · To what, where: hundred deaths, death, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 broke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 broke	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	4 broke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fear	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 fear	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fear	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fear	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fear	advmod
12	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 broke	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 deaths	nummod
15	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fear	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 wife	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break in	past	the shepherd			tree rules
2	not fear in a quote	present · do-support	shepherd	hundred deaths		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	future	shepherd	death		tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	may	shepherd	the princess	for my wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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