The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 90
Should I lose a crown by it I make my choice of ‘Honour and Glory.’”
Who acts: I · What happens: lose, make · To what, where: crown, choice
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 (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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lose | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lose | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lose | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lose | parataxis |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 choice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Honour | case |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Honour | punct |
| 14 | Honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choice | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Glory | cc |
| 16 | Glory | Glory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Honour | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | should | I | a crown | by crown | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | present | I | my choice of Honour and Glory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product |
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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