The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 50
‘But,’ she replied, ‘I will gladly die if by that means I can restore my twelve brothers to their own.’
Who acts: sister, I, that · What happens: reply, die, mean, restore · To what, where: twelve brothers, own · 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 (sister, I, that), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 11 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 12 die | advmod |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 means | mark |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | advcl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 restore | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 restore | aux |
| 19 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 restore | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 own | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 restore | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | sister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | future | I | gladly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | mean a condition, not said to happen | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | restore | can | I | my twelve brothers | brothers's own | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to own=Recipient |
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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