The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 41
“If I don’t get some water I shall die,” went on the giant.
Who acts: giant · What happens: not get, die, go · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 die | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 die | aux |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 water | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 giant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | giant | some water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | shall | giant | some water not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | on the giant | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on giant=Location |
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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