The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 107

Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned.

Who acts: Seven seas, I, we · What happens: lie, carry, have, fall, drown · To what, where: way, you, food, sea

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven seas, I, 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seas	nummod
2	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 carry	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 carry	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 carry	aux
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carry	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 fall	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fall	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 food	advmod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drink	cc
22	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 food	conj
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 fall	nsubj
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fall	aux
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	parataxis
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drowned	cc
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 drowned	aux:pass
31	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fall	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	Seven seas		our way		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on way=Location
2	carry	future	I	you		over seas = sea	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I	food and drink			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	fall	shall	we			into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
5	drown	infinitive · passive	we not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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