The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 99
If we should be pursued by an enemy I can seize our boat by the prow and sink it to the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: enemy, I · What happens: pursue, seize, sink · To what, where: we, boat
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, 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 | _ | 5 pursued | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pursued | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursued | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pursued | aux:pass |
| 5 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seize | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 enemy | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pursued | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seize | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seize | aux |
| 11 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seize | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 prow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prow | det |
| 16 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seize | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sink | cc |
| 18 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seize | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sink | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sink | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottom | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue a condition, not said to happen | should · passive | a enemy | we | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | can | I | our boat | by the prow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | sink | infinitive | I not said here | boat | to the bottom of the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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