The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 150

All at once she remembered that it would be death to this poor officer if he lost the letter, and that at all hazards she must put it back again.

Who acts: All, letter, vain, corner · What happens: remember, be, lose, put back · To what, where: that, death, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, letter, vain, corner), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 remembered	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 All	nmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remembered	nsubj
5	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 death	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 death	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 death	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 death	cop
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 officer	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 officer	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 officer	amod
14	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remembered	obl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 lost	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lost	nsubj
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remembered	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 letter	det
19	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 that	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 remembered	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 hazards	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hazards	det
25	hazards	hazard	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 that	nmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hazards	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	All	that		to this poor officer	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to officer=be'
2	is a	would	letter	death			tree rules
3	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	vain	the letter			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Eventuality
4	put back	must	corner	letter	again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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