The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 98

They must run fast indeed if they were to escape.

Who acts: tops · What happens: run, escape

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tops), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 run	advmod
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 escape	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 escape	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 escape	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 escape	mark
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 run	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	must	tops = top					fast, indeed property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape a condition, not said to happen	past	tops = top						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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