The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 25
If you fulfil your promise you know your reward; if not, I will have you flogged for your impudence.'
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: fulfil, know, have, flog, promise, reward · To what, where: promise, reward, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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 fulfil | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fulfil | nsubj |
| 3 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | advcl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 promise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfil | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 promise | ccomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reward | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 not | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 not | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 fulfil | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fulfil | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | flogged | flog | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 impudence | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 impudence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flogged | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your promise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | your reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flog | participle | you not said here | for your impudence | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for impudence=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | promise | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | reward | your | nom reward «event 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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