The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 3
One of them said to the others, ‘If we are caught, we shall be hanged on the gallows; how shall we set about it?’
Who acts: One, we · What happens: say, catch, hange, set · To what, where: we, gallows · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hanged | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 hanged | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 caught | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | aux:pass |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hanged | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hanged | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hanged | aux:pass |
| 18 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 gallows | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gallows | det |
| 21 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hanged | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 set | advmod |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 set | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 set | nsubj |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 set | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One of soldiers | to the others | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | catch a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | we | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hange | shall · passive | we | the gallows | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | shall | we | about three | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=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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