The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 91
And the king turned to Ciccu and said, ‘Ciccu, if you do not find the veil at once, you shall lose your head.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: turn, say, not find, lose · To what, where: Ciccu, veil, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ciccu | case |
| 6 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ciccu | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ciccu | punct |
| 11 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 veil | det |
| 19 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 find | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lose | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 lose | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 lose | aux |
| 25 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lose | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lose | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the king | Ciccu | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ciccu=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | Ciccu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not find a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | the veil | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent veil=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | lose | shall | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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