The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 29
“Dragon! dragon! if you are not a coward, come forth, and let us have one more fight together.”
Who acts: you, Dragon dragon, us · What happens: not be, come, let, have · To what, where: coward, us, one more fight
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, Dragon dragon, us), 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 | _ | 2 Dragon | punct |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dragon | punct |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragon | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 coward | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 coward | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coward | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 coward | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coward | det |
| 11 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragon | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fight | nummod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 fight | amod |
| 22 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a coward | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Dragon dragon | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Dragon dragon not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | one more fight | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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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