The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 55

“She will die, unless we can make her laugh,” one whispered to the other.

Who acts: Kisa, we · What happens: die, make, laugh, whisper · To what, where: one, Kisa, other · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kisa, we), 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 die	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 die	obl
15	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 one	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 whispered	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	die in a quote	future	Kisa	one		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	we	Kisa		tree rules
3	laugh in a quote	infinitive	Kisa not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	whisper speech: assert	participle			the other	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient

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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