The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 103
‘Oh,’ she answered, ‘if I don’t get some rampion to eat out of the garden behind the house, I know I shall die.’
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: answer, not get, eat out, know, die · To what, where: rampion, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 know | advcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 rampion | det |
| 15 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rampion | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 garden | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 die | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 die | aux |
| 30 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 know | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not get a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | some rampion | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rampion=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eat out | to-infinitive | I not said here | the garden behind the house | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | die | shall | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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