The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 32

“I might fall down on the other side, or break my leg or neck, and then the little dog wouldn’t get shot after all.”

Who acts: Niels · What happens: fall down, break, not shoot · To what, where: other side, leg, little dog

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels), 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	_	4 fall	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fall	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 break	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 break	cc
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leg	nmod:poss
14	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 neck	cc
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leg	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shot	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 shot	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dog	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	nsubj:pass
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 shot	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 shot	advmod
25	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 shot	aux:pass
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fall	parataxis
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 shot	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down in a quote	might	Niels		the other side		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	break in a quote	infinitive	Niels not said here	my leg or neck				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient
3	not shoot in a quote	would · passive		the little dog		after all; then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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