The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 14
Thou wilt bring me those eggs for breakfast, and if one is cracked or broken, thy blood shall pay for it.’
Who acts: Thou, blood · What happens: bring, crack, break, pay · To what, where: eggs, me, one
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, blood), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 eggs | det |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 breakfast | case |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pay | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 cracked | mark |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cracked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cracked | aux:pass |
| 14 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pay | advcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 broken | cc |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cracked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cracked | punct |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pay | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pay | aux |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | Thou | that eggs | me | for breakfast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination egg=Theme | ||
| 2 | crack a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | pay | shall | thy blood | for breakfast | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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