The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 23

‘Surely the sky won’t fall about our heads if we _do_ go in,’ said the second Princess.

Who acts: sky · What happens: not fall, go in, say · To what, where: second Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky), 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	_	7 fall	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fall	advmod
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 heads	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fall	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 we	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 do	discourse
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fall	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fall	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 fall	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
22	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 Princess	amod
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fall	future	the sky		about our heads; surely property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about head=Location
2	go in	present · do-support	the sky not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the second Princess		tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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