The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 81

“Say at once—say this very moment: ‘To your health, your Majesty’; for if you don’t say it you’ll lose your life, whispered he.

Who acts: you · What happens: say, not say, lose, whisper · To what, where: Majesty, life, king · 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 (you), 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	_	2 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Say	obl
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	conj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 moment	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 moment	advmod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
12	To	to	ADP	_	14 health	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 health	nmod:poss
14	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Majesty	punct
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Majesty	nmod:poss
17	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 health	vocative
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 health	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 say	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 say	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 say	advmod
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 say	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 lose	nsubj
28	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 lose	aux
29	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	ccomp
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lose	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 whispered	punct
33	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 say	parataxis
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 whispered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		moment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	Majesty		tree rules
4	lose in a quote	future	you	your life		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
5	whisper speech: assert in a quote	past		king		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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