The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 67
I warned you what would happen if you came back.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: warn, happen, come back · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 warned | nsubj |
| 2 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 warned | obj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 happen | aux |
| 6 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warned | ccomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happen | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come back a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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