The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 86
Let us make it as difficult as possible, and if he fails he shall die.’
Who acts: you, us, King · What happens: let, make, fail, die · To what, where: us, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, King), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 possible | mark |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 difficult | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 die | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 fails | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fails | nsubj |
| 13 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | way | difficult property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | King | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | shall | King | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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