The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 89

‘But if I kill him, how am I to get the golden bowl and the diamond lance that are hidden in the cellar without a key?’ rejoined Peronnik.

Who acts: I · What happens: kill, get, hide, rejoin · To what, where: magician, golden bowl, diamond lance, cellar, Peronnik

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 (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	_	12 get	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 kill	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
5	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 get	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 get	advmod
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 rejoined	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bowl	amod
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lance	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lance	det
18	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lance	amod
19	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hidden	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hidden	aux:pass
22	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lance	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cellar	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cellar	det
25	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hidden	obl
26	without	without	ADP	_	28 key	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 key	det
28	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
31	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 rejoined	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 rejoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill a condition, not said to happen	present	I	magician			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	get	present	I	the golden bowl and the diamond lance		without a key	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Stimulus
3	hide	present · passive		the diamond lance	the cellar		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cellar=Location
4	rejoin	past		Peronnik			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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