The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 88

‘Persuade him to taste that apple, and he will die, and if that is not enough I will touch him with my finger, for I am the plague,’ answered she.

Who acts: magician, that, I · What happens: persuade, taste, die, not be, touch, be · To what, where: magician, apple, rider · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, that, I), 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	_	2 Persuade	punct
2	Persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 answered	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Persuade	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 taste	mark
5	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Persuade	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 apple	mark
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Persuade	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 touch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 touch	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 enough	mark
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 enough	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 enough	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 enough	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 touch	advcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 touch	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 touch	aux
22	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Persuade	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 touch	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 finger	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 finger	nmod:poss
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 plague	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 plague	case
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 plague	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 plague	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 plague	det
32	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Persuade	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Persuade	punct
35	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 answered	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	persuade	infinitive		magician			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
2	taste	to-infinitive	magician not said here	apple			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme apple=Attribute
3	die	future	magician				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	that			enough property	tree rules
5	touch	future	I	magician		with my finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with finger=Instrument
6	is	present	I			for the plague	tree rules
7	answer speech: assert	past			rider		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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