The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 212

“How are we to face our queen,” said the three mice “when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?

Who acts: we, three mice · What happens: be, say, lose, condemn, exterminate · To what, where: talisman, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, three mice), 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	_	6 face	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 face	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 face	cop
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 face	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 face	mark
6	face	face	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 queen	nmod:poss
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mice	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 mice	nummod
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 lost	mark
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 folly	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 folly	nmod:poss
19	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 lost	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	aux
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 talisman	det
24	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 condemned	cc
26	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 people	nmod:poss
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 condemned	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	32 exterminated	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 exterminated	aux:pass
31	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	32 exterminated	advmod
32	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 condemned	advcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we		face property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the three mice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose in a quote	present · perfect	we	the talisman	by our folly	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=Eventuality
4	condemn in a quote	past	we not said here	our people		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
5	exterminate in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here		utterly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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