The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 78

Perhaps he’ll be killed; but then if he isn’t, he’ll never give us these beauties as wives.’

Who acts: rope · What happens: kill, not give · To what, where: rope, beauties, us

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 killed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj:pass
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 killed	aux:pass
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 give	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 n’t	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 n’t	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 n’t	cop
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 give	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 n’t	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
15	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 give	advmod
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 killed	parataxis
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 beauties	det
20	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 wives	case
22	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	future · passive		rope				perhaps property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not give	future	rope	this beauties	us		then	as wives	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient beauty=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 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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