The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 133
'And be sure you don't eat all the cheese, or it will be the worse for you,' continued the wolf.
Who acts: you, reply · What happens: be, not eat, continue · To what, where: cheese, wolf
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reply), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sure | cc |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 eat | advmod |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 cheese | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cheese | det |
| 11 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worse | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 worse | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 worse | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 worse | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worse | det |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
| 23 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 worse | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wolf | det |
| 25 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 continued | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | not eat | present · do-support | you | all cheese | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | future | reply | for you; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | reply not said here | the wolf | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wolf=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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