The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 26
If you do that, we shall not only let you off, but reward you handsomely.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: do, not let off, reward · To what, where: that, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reward | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 reward | cc |
| 15 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 reward | obj |
| 17 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 15 reward | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not let off | shall | we | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reward | infinitive | we not said here | you | handsomely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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