The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 11

Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that.

Who acts: Iveragh, yourself, you · What happens: be, get, drown, break, prefer · To what, where: place, yourself, neck, land, that

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iveragh, yourself, 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	Beyond	beyond	ADP	_	4 places	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 places	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 places	amod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 place	obl
5	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 place	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 coasts	case
10	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coasts	amod
11	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 place	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mountains	cc
13	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mountains	amod
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coasts	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spot	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 spot	case
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spot	amod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 spot	det
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 any	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 any	cop
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 any	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 spot	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Ireland	case
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 any	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 spot	acl
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 get	obj
29	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 get	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 neck	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 neck	cc
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 neck	nmod:poss
33	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	conj
34	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 neck	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 land	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 broken	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 prefer	punct
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 prefer	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 prefer	nsubj
41	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 place	parataxis
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 prefer	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Iveragh	the place or your neck		beyond all other places; for stormy coasts and steep mountains	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	Iveragh not said here	yourself			tree rules
3	drown	participle	yourself not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	break	participle		your neck not said here	the land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
5	prefer	should	you	that			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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