The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 74

“‘Though it is a hard condition,’ said the Queen, ‘I consent, for I shall certainly die if I do not taste the fruit, and so I should lose my little daughter either way.’

Who acts: land, hard condition · What happens: be, say, consent, die, not taste, lose · To what, where: hard condition, fruit, little daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, hard condition), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 condition	punct
3	Though	though	SCONJ	_	8 condition	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 condition	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 condition	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 condition	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 condition	amod
8	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 condition	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 condition	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consent	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 consent	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 consent	nsubj
17	consent	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 die	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 die	advmod
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 consent	conj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 taste	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 taste	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 taste	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 taste	advmod
28	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 die	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fruit	det
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taste	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lose	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lose	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 lose	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lose	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lose	aux
36	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 consent	conj
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 daughter	nmod:poss
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 daughter	amod
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lose	obj
40	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lose	obl:unmarked
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	land	a hard condition		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a hard condition			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	consent in a quote	present	a hard condition = condition			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die in a quote	shall	a hard condition = condition		certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not taste a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	a hard condition = condition	the fruit		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme fruit=Attribute
6	lose in a quote	should	a hard condition = condition	my little daughter	either way obl:unmarked	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality

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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