The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 88
But if he fails to keep the foal and its mother safe on any one of the three nights his head will pay.’
Who acts: man, head · What happens: fail, not keep, pay · To what, where: foal, three nights
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, head), 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 | _ | 4 fails | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fails | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fails | nsubj |
| 4 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fails | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foal | det |
| 8 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mother | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foal | conj |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nights | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nights | det |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 nights | nummod |
| 19 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pay | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 pay | aux |
| 23 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 nights | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fails | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present | man | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not keep | to-infinitive | man not said here | the foal and present's mother | on any one of the three nights; safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foal=Theme on one=Location | |||
| 3 | pay | future | man's head | the three nights not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent night=Asset |
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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