The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 52
If we return without the steed we will lose our heads, so I see we are ill fixed on both sides.’
Who acts: we, I · What happens: return, lose, see, be, fix · To what, where: heads, sides
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 return | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 return | nsubj |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | advcl |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 steed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steed | det |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | aux |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | conj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ill | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ill | cop |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 see | xcomp |
| 19 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ill | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 sides | case |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sides | det |
| 22 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fixed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return a condition, not said to happen | present | we | without the steed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | future | we | our heads | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | we | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fix | participle | both sides | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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