Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 21
Mr Carter, or it shall be the worse for you.’
Who acts: Mr · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr), 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 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 worse | nsubj |
| 2 | Carter | Carter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 worse | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 worse | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 worse | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 worse | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 worse | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 worse | det |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 worse | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 worse | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | Mr | 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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