The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 25
Whoever comes here, will die, will die!
Who acts: Whoever · What happens: come, die
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 comes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | aux |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Whoever | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | future | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | die | future | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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