The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 17
'And you had better mind what you do,' said she, 'for the one whose thread breaks first shall be thrown to the bottom.'
Who acts: you, woman, thread · What happens: have, do, say, break, throw · To what, where: better mind, one, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, thread), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 mind | amod |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 thread | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breaks | nsubj |
| 21 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 breaks | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thrown | aux:pass |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 bottom | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bottom | det |
| 28 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 thrown | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | you | better mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | break | present | thread | first property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | throw | shall · passive | the one | the bottom | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to bottom=Destination |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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