The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 33
If you be married separately, or if you be married without your crowns, a curse will follow--mind what I say.’
Who acts: curse, I, your · What happens: marry, follow, mind, say, crown · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curse, 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 | _ | 4 married | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 follow | advcl |
| 5 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 4 married | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 married | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 married | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 married | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 married | aux:pass |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 married | conj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 crowns | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 crowns | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 married | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 curse | det |
| 17 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 mind | punct |
| 21 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 follow | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 say | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mind | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 follow | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | you | separately property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | marry a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | you | without your crowns | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | future | a curse | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mind | infinitive | a curse not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | crown | your | nom crown «communication 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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