The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 21
And unless thou wilt do this we will slay thee.’
Who acts: we · What happens: slay · To what, where: thee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slay | cc |
| 2 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 slay | aux |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slay | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 slay | aux |
| 9 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 slay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slay | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | future · infinitive · do-support | we | thee | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/21/