The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 50
'You will never see your wife and son if you will not do as you are bid,' said they. '
Who acts: You, wife · What happens: not see, not do, bid, say · To what, where: wife, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 bid | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 bid | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bid | aux:pass |
| 18 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bid | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | advcl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | future | You | your wife and son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | present · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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