The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 19

If you once enter the miller’s gate his dogs will tear you in pieces.”

Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: enter, tear · To what, where: gate, you, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs), 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	_	4 enter	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 enter	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 enter	advmod
4	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tear	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 miller	case
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enter	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dogs	nmod:poss
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tear	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tear	aux
12	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tear	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tear	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tear	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the miller's gate				once property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
2	tear	future	boy's dogs	you		pieces			tree rules

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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