The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 8

'You had better not kill me, for, if you do, I will turn you into a fish yourself!'

Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, not kill, do, turn · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 kill	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 turn	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 turn	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	aux
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 turn	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 fish	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fish	det
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 turn	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	You			tree rules
2	not kill	infinitive	You not said here	me	well property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	future	I	you	into a fish result; yourself obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Theme into fish=Result

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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