The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 138
And if you fail to find her your head will be the forfeit.”
Who acts: you, head · What happens: fail, not find, be · To what, where: gardener, forfeit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, head), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fail | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fail | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fail | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forfeit | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forfeit | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forfeit | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forfeit | det |
| 13 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not find | to-infinitive | you not said here | gardener | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | your head | the forfeit | 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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