The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 92

Read this letter from the Sultan; you will see that if I fail to answer his question about the foals, a dreadful war will be the result.”

Who acts: you, I, dreadful war, prisoner · What happens: read, see, fail, not answer, be, question · To what, where: letter, Sultan, question, result

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. 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, dreadful war, prisoner), 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	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Sultan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 letter	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Read	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fail	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 fail	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fail	nsubj
14	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 answer	mark
16	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fail	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 question	nmod:poss
18	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 foals	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foals	det
21	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 question	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 result	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 war	det
24	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 war	amod
25	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 result	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 result	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 result	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 result	det
29	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 question	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Read	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	this letter	the Sultan		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Topic from sultan=Source
2	see	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	I				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	prisoner's question		about the foals	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
5	is a	future	a dreadful war	the result			tree rules
6	question		prisoner			about the foals	nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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