The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 22
“Then I swear that I _will_ bring the Terrible Head, if it may be brought by a living man.
Who acts: King, living man · What happens: swear, bring · To what, where: Terrible Head, Head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, living man), 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 | _ | 4 swear | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 swear | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 swear | nsubj |
| 4 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | ADP | _ | 6 I | case |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 swear | obl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swear | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Head | det |
| 12 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Head | amod |
| 13 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bring | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | present | the King = king | then | that the King = king | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | the King = king not said here | the Terrible Head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | may · passive | a living man | Head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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