Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 78
If ye do not find her," said he, "it will be the death of my child, and then ye also are dead men."
Who acts: ye, Tsar, kingdom · What happens: not find, say, be · To what, where: daughter, death, dead men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Tsar, kingdom), 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 find | mark |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 death | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 death | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 death | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 death | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 death | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 death | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 men | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 men | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 men | advmod |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 men | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 men | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 men | cop |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 men | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | ye | daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | kingdom | the death | of my child | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | ye | dead men | then | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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