The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 47
If a man yields once he’s done for, and so, because he had given in the first time, he was forced to do so the second.
Who acts: man · What happens: yield, do, give, force · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 yields | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yields | nsubj |
| 4 | yields | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 forced | advcl |
| 5 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 yields | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 done | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 so | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 so | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 done | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 done | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yields | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forced | aux:pass |
| 25 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 forced | xcomp |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 second | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 second | det |
| 30 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 do | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield a condition, not said to happen | present | a man | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present · passive | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | man | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | force | past · passive | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | man not said here | so the second | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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