The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 9
If once we got entangled in THEM, we should never get out again!”
Who acts: we · What happens: entangle, not get out · To what, where: we
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 (we), 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 entangled | mark |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 entangled | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entangled | aux:pass |
| 5 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 get | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 THEM | case |
| 7 | THEM | them | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entangled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entangled | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entangle a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | we | in THEM; once property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in them=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get out | should | we | again | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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