The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 20
‘Shall we forsooth suffer death for the sake of a wretched girl?
Who acts: we · What happens: suffer · To what, where: death
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 suffer | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffer | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suffer | nsubj |
| 4 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 we | amod |
| 5 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffer | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sake | det |
| 9 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffer | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sake | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | shall | we | death | for the sake of a wretched girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus for sake=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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