The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 60
But if thou wilt not grant it to me, then I will proclaim thy discourtesy wherever thy name is known.’
Who acts: thou, I, thy · What happens: not grant, proclaim, know, name · To what, where: praise, me, discourtesy, name
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I, thy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 proclaim | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 grant | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 grant | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 grant | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grant | advmod |
| 6 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proclaim | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grant | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 grant | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grant | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 proclaim | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 proclaim | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 proclaim | aux |
| 14 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 discourtesy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | discourtesy | discourtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 proclaim | obj |
| 17 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 known | advmod |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 known | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 proclaim | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 proclaim | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 proclaim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grant a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | praise | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Goal | |||
| 2 | proclaim | future | I | thy discourtesy | then | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discourtesy=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | thy name | wherever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name | thy | nom name «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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