The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 94
“Ah, brother, if you are really going to eat me, do it, I beg of you, in good style.
Who acts: you, Michael · What happens: go, eat, do, beg · To what, where: Michael, crow, good style
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Michael), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 10 going | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 beg | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 beg | nsubj |
| 19 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 beg | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 style | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 style | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 style | amod |
| 25 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beg | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Michael | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | crow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | Michael | good style | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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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