The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 134

If a man is fated to be unlucky, unlucky he will be, whatever he may do!

Who acts: man, horse · What happens: be, do · To what, where: whatever

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, horse), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 fated	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fated	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fated	cop
5	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 do	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 unlucky	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 unlucky	cop
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fated	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unlucky	punct
10	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unlucky	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fated	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fated	punct
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 do	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	a man		fated property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a man not said here		unlucky property	tree rules
3	be		a man not said here			tree rules
4	do	may	horse	whatever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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