Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 23
But, prompt as you are, if you fail to answer my three questions, you shall lose your head."
Who acts: you, my · What happens: be, fail, not answer, lose, question · To what, where: three questions, head
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 prompt | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prompt | punct |
| 3 | prompt | prompt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 are | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 are | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prompt | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fail | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 fail | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fail | nsubj |
| 10 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prompt | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 answer | mark |
| 12 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fail | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 questions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 questions | nummod |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 answer | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | aux |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prompt | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prompt | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 prompt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fail | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | my three questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lose | shall | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | question | my | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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