The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 39

‘This is a den of robbers; if they were to come here and find you they would kill you.’

Who acts: This, brothers · What happens: be, come, find, kill · To what, where: den, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, brothers), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 den	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 den	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 den	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 den	det
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 robbers	case
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 den	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 den	parataxis
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 come	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
16	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kill	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kill	aux
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 find	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 kill	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 den	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 den	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a den		of robbers	tree rules
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	brothers = brother		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	present	brothers = brother not said here	you			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme
4	kill	would	brothers = brother	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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