The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 16
“Will you really send me, your only child, to that dreadful place, from which most likely I shall never come back?”
Who acts: you, emperor · What happens: send, not come back · To what, where: only child, emperor, dreadful place
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, emperor), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 send | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 send | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 send | advmod |
| 5 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 send | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 14 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 send | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 come | obl |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 likely | advmod |
| 20 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | parataxis |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | future | you | your only child | emperor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | not come back in a quote | shall | emperor | that dreadful place | likely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location |
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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