The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 117

Woe to him who chooses the middle path! if he had a thousand lives he would not save one; it is very hazardous; it leads to the Caucasus, and is an endless road.

Who acts: Woe, man, thousand · What happens: choose, have, live, not save, be, lead · To what, where: middle path, one, endless road

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 (Woe, man, thousand), 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	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hazardous	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Woe	nmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chooses	nsubj
5	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Woe	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
7	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 path	amod
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chooses	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 path	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chooses	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thousand	det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 lives	nsubj
15	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 had	ccomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 save	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 save	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 save	advmod
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lives	ccomp
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 save	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hazardous	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hazardous	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hazardous	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 hazardous	advmod
25	hazardous	hazardous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 leads	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leads	nsubj
28	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hazardous	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Caucasus	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Caucasus	det
31	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 leads	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 road	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 road	cc
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 road	cop
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 road	det
36	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 road	amod
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leads	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 hazardous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	present	Woe to man	the middle path		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	man			tree rules
3	live	present	a thousand			tree rules
4	not save	would	man	one		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	is	present	Woe to man		hazardous property	tree rules
6	lead	present	Woe		to the Caucasus	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to caucasus=Patient
7	is a	present		a endless road		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: «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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