The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 32
You shall procure it for me, or else lose your lives,’ said he.
Who acts: You, coverlet · What happens: procure, lose, say · To what, where: world, lives · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, coverlet), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 procure | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 procure | aux |
| 3 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 procure | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 procure | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lose | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lose | cc |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 lose | advmod |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 procure | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 procure | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 procure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | procure | shall | You | world | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | You not said here | your lives | else property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | coverlet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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