The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 23
Then the girl continued: ‘Remember, though, if you do not succeed the Sun will kill you.
Who acts: girl, you, Sun · What happens: continue, remember, not succeed, kill · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, you, Sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 continued | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remember | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remember | punct |
| 7 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 7 Remember | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeed | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 succeed | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 succeed | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 succeed | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 succeed | advmod |
| 15 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Remember | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sun | det |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 succeed | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the girl | then | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | the girl not said here | though property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not succeed a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | future | the Sun | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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