Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 5
If you don't get away quick, I'll throw a panful of hot dish-water over you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not get away, throw · To what, where: panful
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 throw | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | aux |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 panful | det |
| 13 | panful | panful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 throw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 16 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dish | punct |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 panful | nmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get away a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | away, quick property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | future | I | a panful of hot dish water | over you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent panful=Theme over you=Destination |
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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