The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 3

‘If our thirteenth child is a girl, all her twelve brothers must die, so that she may be very rich and the kingdom hers alone.’

Who acts: thirteenth child, twelve brothers, girl · What happens: be, die · To what, where: girl

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 (thirteenth child, twelve brothers, girl), 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	_	15 die	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 girl	mark
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
4	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 girl	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 die	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 brothers	det:predet
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brothers	nummod
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 die	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 die	aux
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rich	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 rich	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rich	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 rich	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 rich	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 rich	advmod
23	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 die	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hers	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kingdom	det
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hers	nsubj
27	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rich	conj
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 die	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	our thirteenth child	a girl		tree rules
2	die	must	girl's twelve brothers		alone property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	may	girl		rich property	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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