The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 33
If this should be the case, I know of a capital way to find out the truth.”
Who acts: this, I · What happens: be, know, find out · To what, where: case, truth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | should | this | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | of a capital way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find out | to-infinitive | I not said here | the truth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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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