The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 14
Now if we remain here we shall die of hunger, and if we move out we shall be strung up on the gallows.’
Who acts: we · What happens: remain, die, move out, string up · To what, where: we, gallows
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 die | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 remain | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | advcl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remain | advmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 die | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hunger | case |
| 10 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strung | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 move | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 move | nsubj |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 strung | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 move | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 strung | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 strung | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 strung | aux:pass |
| 20 | strung | string | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 die | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 strung | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 gallows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gallows | det |
| 24 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain a condition, not said to happen | present | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | shall | we | now | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | |||
| 3 | move out a condition, not said to happen | present | we | out property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | string up | shall · passive | we | the gallows | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on gallows=Destination |
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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