The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 31

There is no play fellow like a frog; but then it must be a fairy frog, or else you might hurt it, and if you did something dreadful might happen to you.

Who acts: play fellow, game, you · What happens: be, hurt, happen · To what, where: fairy frog, game, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play fellow, game, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 fellow	det
4	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fellow	compound
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 frog	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frog	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fellow	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 frog	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 frog	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 frog	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 frog	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 frog	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 frog	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 frog	det
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frog	compound
17	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hurt	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 hurt	cc
20	else	else	ADV	_	23 hurt	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 hurt	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hurt	aux
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 frog	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hurt	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 happen	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 happen	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 did	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 did	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 happen	aux
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 did	obj
31	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 something	amod
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 happen	aux
33	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 hurt	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 happen	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no play fellow like a frog			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	must	game	a fairy frog			then		tree rules
3	hurt	might	you	game				else property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
4	happen	might · past · do-support			you				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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