The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 53
‘If I fail, then you come,’ said he, and followed the path that Florea had taken.
Who acts: I, you, Costan, path · What happens: fail, come, say, follow, take · To what, where: path, Florea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you, Costan, path), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fail | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 come | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fail | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 19 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 path | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | you | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Costan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | Costan not said here | the path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect · passive | the path not said here | Florea | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=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 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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