The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 6
If he were not capable of finding her then he must die.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: not be, find, die · To what, where: daughter
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 (eldest), 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 capable | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 capable | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 capable | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 capable | advmod |
| 5 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 die | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 finding | mark |
| 7 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 capable | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finding | obj |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 die | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | eldest = eld | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | eldest = eld not said here | daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Topic | ||||
| 3 | die | must | eldest = eld | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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