The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 70
‘Mortal, if thou art curious to know thy fate, strike this bell, and submit to what shall befall thee.’
Who acts: thy · What happens: know, strike, submit, befall, fate · To what, where: fate, bell, thee
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (thy), 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 | _ | 2 Mortal | punct |
| 2 | Mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 art | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mortal | parataxis |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 art | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 curious | xcomp |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 fate | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strike | punct |
| 13 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 bell | det |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strike | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 submit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 submit | cc |
| 18 | submit | submit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 art | conj |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 befall | mark |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 befall | obj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 befall | aux |
| 22 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 submit | advcl |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 befall | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mortal | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mortal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | thy fate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | strike | infinitive | this bell | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient | |||||
| 3 | submit | infinitive | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | befall | shall | thee | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fate | thy | nom fate «event 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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