The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 72
If you fail to keep your word I will change you into a lizard for ever.'
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: fail, not keep, change, word · To what, where: word, you, lizard
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. 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, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fail | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fail | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 change | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | aux |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 change | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 lizard | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lizard | det |
| 14 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 change | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | your word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | future | I | you | a lizard | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme for ever=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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