The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21
But I will do this on one condition only, namely, that when you have heard you will submit yourself to death.”
Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: do, hear, submit · To what, where: this, one condition, yourself, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 condition | nummod |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 condition | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 namely | punct |
| 11 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 condition | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 condition | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 submit | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 submit | aux |
| 20 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 submit | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 submit | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | this | one condition | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | submit | future | you | yourself | death | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to death=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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