The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 26
Begone, or it will be the worse for you,’ and as he spoke he lifted up his whip.
Who acts: Begone · What happens: be, speak, lift up · To what, where: whip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Begone), 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 | Begone | Begone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worse | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worse | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 worse | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worse | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 worse | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 worse | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 worse | det |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 worse | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worse | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 worse | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lifted | advcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lifted | nsubj |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 worse | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 lifted | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 whip | nmod:poss |
| 21 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Begone | for you; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Begone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past | Begone | Begone's whip | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=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 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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