Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 24
If you find it, I shall remain alive, but if you find it not, know that the serpent will remove me from the face of the earth!"
Who acts: you, I, serpent · What happens: find, remain, not find, know, remove · To what, where: sea, me, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. 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, serpent), 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 | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remain | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 remain | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remain | aux |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remain | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 remain | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 remove | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 serpent | det |
| 21 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remove | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 remove | aux |
| 23 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 remove | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 face | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remove | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 earth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 face | nmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 remain | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | you | sea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remain | shall | I | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find a condition, not said to happen | present | you | sea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | remove | future | the serpent | me | the face of the earth | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from face=Source |
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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