The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 17
No matter how impossible it is, he must do it or die.’
Who acts: matter, King · What happens: be, do, die · To what, where: matter
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impossible | nsubj |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 impossible | advmod |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impossible | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no matter | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | must | King | matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | King not said here | 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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