The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 55

Then he will raise his head to look at the knob, and you must stab him in the mole which is on the right side of his neck; but take heed, for if you miss the mole with the point of the sword, then my death and your death are certain.

Who acts: king, you, mole, death, my, your · What happens: raise, look, stab, be, take, miss · To what, where: head, king, mole, right side, heed, sword

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, mole, death), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 raise	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 raise	aux
4	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raise	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 raise	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 knob	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knob	det
11	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stab	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stab	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 stab	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stab	aux
16	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 raise	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stab	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 mole	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mole	det
20	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stab	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 side	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 side	cop
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mole	acl:relcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 neck	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neck	nmod:poss
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 take	cc
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 raise	conj
33	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 miss	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 miss	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 miss	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 miss	nsubj
38	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 take	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mole	det
40	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 miss	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 point	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 point	det
43	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 miss	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sword	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sword	det
46	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 point	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 death	punct
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 death	advmod
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 death	nmod:poss
50	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 certain	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 death	cc
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 death	nmod:poss
53	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 death	conj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 certain	cop
55	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 take	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	future	king	king's head		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	king not said here				at the knob	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at knob=Theme
3	stab	must	you	king	the mole			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in mole=Location
4	is	present	the mole		the right side		of king's neck	tree rules
5	take	infinitive	king not said here	heed				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
6	miss a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the mole			with the point of the sword	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mole=Stimulus
7	is	present	my death and your death				certain property	tree rules
8	point			the sword				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	die		my					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
10	die		your					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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