Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 21
If you fail, my sol-diers shall kill the boy before your eyes."
Who acts: you, sol diers · What happens: fail, kill · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sol diers), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fail | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 diers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sol | sol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 diers | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sol | punct |
| 8 | diers | dier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | aux |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kill | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | shall | my sol diers | the boy | before your eyes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/23/21/