The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 41
If this is what you learn from Denis, I forbid you to speak to him, and I will have him turned out of the farm if he dares to show his face here again.
Who acts: this, you, I, Denis · What happens: be, learn, forbid, speak, have, turn out · To what, where: Denis, you, farm, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, I, Denis), 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 what | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Denis | case |
| 8 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forbid | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 forbid | nsubj |
| 11 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 forbid | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forbid | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 forbid | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 farm | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 farm | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 farm | det |
| 27 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | obl |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 dares | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dares | nsubj |
| 30 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 turned | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dares | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 show | obj |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 show | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 show | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | present | you | Denis | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from denis=Source | ||||
| 3 | forbid | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | Denis | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | future | I | Denis | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | turn out | participle | Denis not said here | the farm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location farm=Theme | ||||
| 7 | dare a condition, not said to happen | present | Denis | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | show | to-infinitive | Denis not said here | Denis's face | here | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=Recipient |
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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