Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 138
Unless my husband saves me before I'm swallowed the fourth time, I shall be lost.
Who acts: husband · What happens: save, swallow, lose · To what, where: me, I
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 4 saves | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saves | nsubj |
| 4 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saves | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 swallowed | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swallowed | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saves | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallowed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saves | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save a condition, not said to happen | present | my husband | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | present · passive | I | time | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | shall · passive | I | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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