The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 97

Everybody knows that though the fairies live hundreds of years they do sometimes die, and especially as they are obliged to pass one day in every week under the form of some animal, when of course they are liable to accident.

Who acts: Everybody, fairies · What happens: know, live, die, oblige, pass, be · To what, where: hundreds, fairies, form, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, fairies), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 live	mark
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 live	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairies	det
6	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 die	advmod
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hundreds	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 obliged	cc
17	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 obliged	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 obliged	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obliged	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 obliged	aux:pass
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knows	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	xcomp
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 day	nummod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 week	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 week	det
28	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	obl
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 form	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 form	det
31	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 animal	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 animal	det
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 form	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 liable	punct
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 liable	mark
37	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	41 liable	advmod
38	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 of	fixed
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 liable	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 liable	cop
41	liable	liable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 form	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 accident	case
43	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 liable	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Everybody					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	live	present	the fairies	hundreds of years				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hundred=Location
3	die	present · do-support	fairies = fairy	hundreds of years not said here			sometimes property	tree rules
4	oblige	present · passive		fairies = fairy			especially property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	pass	to-infinitive			the form of some animal	day; week		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under form=Location
6	is	present	fairies = fairy				to accident; liable property	tree rules
7	form			some animal				nom form «communication 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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