The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 90
Restore him to life, I pray, for though he be dead yet has he fulfilled his vow also.”
Who acts: you, I, James · What happens: restore, pray, be, have, fulfil, vow · To what, where: James, life, vow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, James), 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 | Restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Restore | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Restore | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pray | nsubj |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Restore | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dead | case |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 dead | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dead | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dead | cop |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Restore | parataxis |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 has | advmod |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dead | advcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 17 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 has | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 vow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fulfilled | obj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 fulfilled | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Restore | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | imperative | you not said here | James | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | James | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | James not said here | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fulfil | past | James | James's vow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | vow | James | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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