English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 7
“If it is possible to bring her back,” said her brother, “I'll do it, or perish in the attempt.”
Who acts: it, brother · What happens: be, bring back, say, do, perish · To what, where: Burd, Warlock, attempt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, brother), 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 | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 possible | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | cop |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | csubj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 perish | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 perish | cc |
| 23 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 attempt | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 attempt | det |
| 26 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 perish | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back in a quote | to-infinitive | Burd | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Burd's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | Burd's brother = brother | Warlock | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | perish in a quote | infinitive | Burd's brother = brother not said here | the attempt | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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