The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 58

‘Let me tell you, then, that there is in this city a creature which, if you do not put an end to it, will kill every single person in the place.’

Who acts: you, me, city, creature · What happens: let, tell, be, not put, kill · To what, where: me, you, end, city, single person, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, city, creature), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 then	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Let	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 is	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 creature	det
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 city	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 put	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 put	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 put	advmod
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 creature	acl:relcl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 end	det
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kill	punct
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	aux
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 creature	acl:relcl
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 person	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 person	amod
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kill	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 place	det
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kill	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			then	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	be	present	this city a creature			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not put a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	a creature	a end	city			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
5	kill	future	a creature not said here	every single person		the place		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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