The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 58
But if you slay the wrong ox your head shall pay for it.”
Who acts: you · What happens: slay, pay · To what, where: wrong ox
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 11 pay | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 slay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ox | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ox | amod |
| 7 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slay | obj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slay | obj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pay | aux |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the wrong ox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | shall | for head | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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: «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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