The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 67
Do you know what to do so as to escape death?’
Who acts: you · What happens: know, escape · To what, where: death
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 escape | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 escape | aux |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 escape | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 escape | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 escape | mark |
| 10 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 escape | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive · do-support | death | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/35/67/