The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 35
But the young man answered, ‘I accept your conditions, oh king; I will either find her or lose my head.’
Who acts: young man, I, your · What happens: answer, accept, find, lose, condition · To what, where: conditions, enterprise, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, I, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accept | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 accept | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 accept | nsubj |
| 9 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conditions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 accept | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 13 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 king | discourse |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conditions | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 accept | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 lose | cc |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 find | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accept | present | I | your conditions and king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | future | I | enterprise | either property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | I not said here | my head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | condition | your | nom condition «state transitive»: 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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