The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 134
If you tell them the horses belong to an ogre they will drive them off, and then the ogre will kill you!
Who acts: you, horses, paws, ogre · What happens: tell, belong, drive off, kill · To what, where: paws, pigs, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horses, paws, ogre), 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 tell | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 belong | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 belong | nsubj |
| 7 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ogre | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ogre | det |
| 10 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belong | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drive | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 drive | aux |
| 13 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ogre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drive | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 drive | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 ogre | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ogre | det |
| 20 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 belong | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | paws = paw | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the horses | to a ogre | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive off | future | paws = paw | pigs = pig | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill | future | the ogre | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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