The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 118
“It is written in the books of fate that he must die, either by a crocodile, or a serpent, or by a dog.
Who acts: king · What happens: write, die · To what, where: child, books, fate
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 books | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 books | det |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fate | case |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 books | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fate | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crocodile | punct |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 18 crocodile | cc:preconj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 crocodile | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crocodile | det |
| 18 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 serpent | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 serpent | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 serpent | det |
| 22 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crocodile | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dog | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 dog | cc |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 dog | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dog | det |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crocodile | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | present · passive | child | the books of fate | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | must | king | fate not said here | 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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