The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 137

If she is ordained to be the cause of my death, well, then it will be so; but if not I shall conquer her though she were twelve hundred Welwas,’ and once more he stooped down to gather the flowers.

Who acts: death, I, way, Petru, my · What happens: ordain, be, conquer, stoop down, gather, die · To what, where: way, cause, twelve hundred, flowers

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 (death, I, way, Petru), 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	_	4 ordained	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordained	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ordained	aux:pass
4	ordained	ordain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 stooped	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	8 cause	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cause	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordained	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 death	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 death	nmod:poss
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ordained	punct
13	well	well	INTJ	_	40 stooped	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 so	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 so	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 so	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 so	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	40 stooped	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 conquer	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 conquer	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 not	mark
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 conquer	advcl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 conquer	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 conquer	aux
26	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 so	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 conquer	obj
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 hundred	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hundred	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hundred	cop
31	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hundred	compound
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 conquer	obl
33	Welwas	Welwas	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 hundred	nmod:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 conquer	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 conquer	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 once	cc
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 stooped	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stooped	nsubj
40	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	down	down	ADV	_	40 stooped	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 gather	mark
43	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 stooped	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 flowers	det
45	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gather	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ordain a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		way			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		the cause		of my death	tree rules
3	is	future	death		then	so property	tree rules
4	conquer	shall	I	way			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	is a	past	way	twelve hundred		Welwas nmod:unmarked	tree rules
6	stoop down	past	Petru			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	gather	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	the flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
8	die		my				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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