The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 131
“And be sure you tell the truth about it,” added she, “or it will be the worse for you.”
Who acts: you, truth · What happens: be, tell, add · To what, where: truth, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, truth), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sure | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 13 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 added | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worse | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 worse | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 worse | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 worse | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 worse | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 worse | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worse | det |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 added | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 worse | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | the truth | about truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about it=Topic | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | you not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | truth | for you; bad property | tree rules |
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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