The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 53
‘But suppose some evil thing befalls you?’ asked his sister.
Who acts: evil thing · What happens: suppose, befall, ask · To what, where: you, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil thing), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 suppose | cc |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befalls | nsubj |
| 7 | befalls | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 befalls | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | befall | present | some evil thing | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | bird's sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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