The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 24
But be sure you eat only the white ones, for the red ones would kill you.'
Who acts: you, red ones · What happens: be, eat, kill · To what, where: white ones, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, red ones), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sure | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 ones | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kill | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ones | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | you | the white ones | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | would | the red ones | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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