More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 95
You must never look up the chimney, or something bad will befall you."
Who acts: You, something · What happens: not look up, befall · To what, where: chimney, you
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, something), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 look | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chimney | det |
| 7 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 befall | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 befall | cc |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 befall | nsubj |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 befall | aux |
| 13 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 befall | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look up | must | You | the chimney | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chimney=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | befall | future | something | you | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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