Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
You have never been whipped, but you will be whipped now.
What happens: not whip, whip · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 whipped | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whipped | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 whipped | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 whipped | aux:pass |
| 5 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whipped | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 whipped | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 whipped | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 whipped | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whipped | aux:pass |
| 11 | whipped | whip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 whipped | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 whipped | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whip | present · perfect · passive | You | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | |||||
| 2 | whip | future · passive | you | now | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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