The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 45
If you won’t give it to me, I sha’n’t take the cattle out.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not give, not take out · To what, where: little, me, cattle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. 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), 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 | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 11 | sha’ | sha' | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cattle | det |
| 15 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 take | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | little | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not take out | I | the cattle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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