The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 85

‘River, River, outward flow, Or to death Drakestail must go.’

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: go · To what, where: death

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	_	2 River	punct
2	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 River	punct
4	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 River	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flow	punct
6	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flow	amod
7	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 River	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
9	Or	or	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
12	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 River	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	Drakestail			death			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial_Location

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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