The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 14
It will die if you do not put it back in the water.'
Who acts: fish, you · What happens: die, not put back · To what, where: fish, water
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 die | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | aux |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 die | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | future | fish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not put back a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | fish | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=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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