The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 57
But how shall we know if any evil thing befall him?’
Who acts: we, evil thing · What happens: know, befall · To what, where: man
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 (we, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 befall | mark |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 befall | nsubj |
| 10 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 befall | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | befall a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | any evil thing | man | tree rules |
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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