The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 32

If I had to sentence him I should make him perform some very difficult task, under pain of death.

Who acts: I, emperor · What happens: have, make, perform, pain · To what, where: sentence, emperor, difficult task, pain, death

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, emperor), 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	_	3 had	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 make	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sentence	mark
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 task	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 difficult	advmod
14	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 task	amod
15	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pain	punct
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 pain	case
18	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pain	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	sentence		emperor obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient
2	make	should	I	emperor			tree rules
3	perform	infinitive	emperor not said here	some difficult task	pain of death		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
4	pain			death			nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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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