The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 63

At length he said to her: “Know, then, that if I tell it you I shall immediately and surely die.”

Who acts: husband · What happens: say, know, tell, die · To what, where: mistress, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Know	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Know	punct
9	Know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Know	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Know	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 immediately	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 immediately	aux
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 tell	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 die	cc
23	surely	surely	ADV	_	24 die	advmod
24	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 immediately	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Know	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	husband		mistress	length			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	infinitive					then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	husband	length	mistress				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic
4	die in a quote	present	husband not said here					surely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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