The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 55
‘We cannot kill her,’ answered they; ‘if we did, our son would assuredly kill us.
Who acts: We, son · What happens: not kill, answer, do, kill · To what, where: queen, words, us
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, son), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 20 | assuredly | assuredly | ADV | _ | 21 kill | advmod |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | can | We | queen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | We not said here | words = word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill | would | our son | us | assuredly property | tree rules |
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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