The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14
And in that case her death was as certain as that of the prince.
Who acts: death, chasm · What happens: be, die · To what, where: case
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, chasm), 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 | _ | 9 certain | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 certain | obl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 certain | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 certain | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 certain | advmod |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 certain | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 that | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chasm's death | that case | as that; certain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | chasm | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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