The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 42
I won’t reproach you: your punishment will be severe without it.
Who acts: I, punishment, your · What happens: not reproach, be, punish · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, punishment, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reproach | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 reproach | advmod |
| 4 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 severe | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 severe | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 severe | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 severe | cop |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reproach | conj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 severe | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reproach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reproach | future | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | your punishment | without skin; severe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | your | nom punishment «act 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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