The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 34

Would the charm work, or would the water trickle away slowly through the sand, and the prince fall a victim to that horrible monster?

Who acts: prince · What happens: fall · To what, where: victim

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 (prince), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
3	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	compound
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trickle	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 trickle	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trickle	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trickle	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trickle	compound
10	trickle	trickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 trickle	advmod
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 sand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sand	det
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 away	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fall	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fall	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	nsubj
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 work	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 victim	det
22	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 monster	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 monster	det
25	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 monster	amod
26	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	infinitive	the prince	a victim				to that horrible monster result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to monster=Result

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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