The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 75

‘No,’ said the old woman, ‘there is only one way in the whole world, and that is so difficult that you won’t free them by it, for you would have to be dumb and not laugh for seven years, and if you spoke a single word, though but an hour were wanting to the time, your silence would all have been in vain, and that one word would slay your brothers.’

Who acts: old woman, one way, that, you, hour, silence · What happens: say, be, have, not laugh, speak, want · To what, where: old woman, single word, brothers · 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 (old woman, one way, that, you), 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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 way	nummod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 world	amod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 difficult	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 difficult	cc
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 difficult	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 difficult	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 difficult	advmod
25	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 free	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 free	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 free	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 free	advmod
30	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 difficult	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 free	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 free	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 have	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 difficult	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 dumb	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 dumb	cop
41	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 have	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 laugh	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 laugh	advmod
44	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 dumb	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 years	case
46	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 years	nummod
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 laugh	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 spoke	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 spoke	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 spoke	mark
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 spoke	nsubj
52	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 word	det
54	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 word	amod
55	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 spoke	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 wanting	punct
57	though	though	SCONJ	_	62 wanting	mark
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 wanting	cc
59	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 hour	det
60	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 wanting	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 wanting	aux
62	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 spoke	advcl
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 time	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 time	det
65	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 wanting	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 vain	punct
67	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 silence	nmod:poss
68	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 vain	nsubj:outer
69	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 vain	aux
70	all	all	ADV	_	74 vain	advmod
71	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	74 vain	aux
72	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	74 vain	cop
73	in	in	ADP	_	74 vain	case
74	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 wanting	conj
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 slay	punct
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 slay	cc
77	that	that	SCONJ	_	81 slay	mark
78	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	79 word	nummod
79	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 slay	nsubj
80	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	81 slay	aux
81	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
82	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	83 brothers	nmod:poss
83	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 slay	obj
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
85	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	one way in the whole world	the old woman not said here	there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme
3	is	present	that				difficult property	tree rules
4	have	would	you					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	you not said here				dumb property	tree rules
6	not laugh	infinitive	you not said here			year		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a single word				tree rules
8	want	past · progressive	a hour			time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	is	would · perfect	your silence				all, vain property	tree rules
10	slay	would	one word	your brothers				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
11	silence		your					nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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