The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 101
If you had a hundred lives you would not bring one out safe from this journey.”
Who acts: you, hundred · What happens: have, live, not bring out · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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, hundred), 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 had | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bring | advmod |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bring | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 journey | det |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 safe | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | present | a hundred | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not bring out | would | you | one | out, safe property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=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 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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