The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 73
Whether he gets there or not, we shall be quit of him.’
Who acts: squire · What happens: get, quit · To what, where: we
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 gets | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 quit | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gets | advmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 not | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 there | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 quit | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 quit | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 quit | aux:pass |
| 11 | quit | quit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quit | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 quit | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 quit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | squire | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | quit | shall · passive | we | of squire | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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