The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 116

‘Well, if you must, you must, I suppose,’ answered the wizard; ‘but if you win that game, ask as a prize the ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door.’

Who acts: I, you, ugly headed girl · What happens: suppose, answer, win, ask, head, stand · To what, where: wizard, game, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (I, you, ugly headed girl), 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 suppose	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	12 suppose	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 must	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 must	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Well	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 must	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Well	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 suppose	nsubj
12	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 suppose	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wizard	det
17	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 ask	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 win	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 win	nsubj
23	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	advcl
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 game	det
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 win	punct
27	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 suppose	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 prize	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 prize	det
30	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 girl	det
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 girl	amod
33	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 headed	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 crop	punct
35	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 girl	amod
36	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 prize	appos
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stands	nsubj
38	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 girl	acl:relcl
39	behind	behind	ADP	_	41 door	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 door	det
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stands	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the wizard			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wizard=Eventuality
3	win a condition, not said to happen	present	you	that game				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here				as a prize	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	head	participle						vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	stand	present	the ugly headed girl			the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location

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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