The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 43
But they would not procure it unless they were threatened with death.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: not procure, threaten · To what, where: dove, brothers
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 procure | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 procure | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 procure | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 procure | advmod |
| 5 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 procure | obj |
| 7 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 threatened | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threatened | aux:pass |
| 10 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 procure | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threatened | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 procure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not procure | would | brothers = brother | dove | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | threaten a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | brothers = brother | with death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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