The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 109
You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg.
Who acts: You, your · What happens: have, punish, fall down, break, trouble, pain · To what, where: trouble, stone steps, leg
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, your), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 pains | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pains | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trouble | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 punished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 punished | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 punished | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 punished | aux:pass |
| 13 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 greediness | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 greediness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | greediness | greediness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 punished | obl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 falling | mark |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 punished | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steps | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 steps | compound |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 falling | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 breaking | cc |
| 24 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 falling | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 leg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 breaking | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | You | your trouble | for your pains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | |||
| 2 | punish | would · passive | You not said here | for your greediness | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: for greediness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall down | gerund | You not said here | the stone steps | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient step=Result | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | You not said here | your leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trouble | your | for your pains | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 6 | pain | your | nom pain «state 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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