The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 74
‘You can do what you like, but if you don’t take my advice she will kill you all.’
Who acts: You, daughter · What happens: do, like, not take, kill · To what, where: advice, you
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, daughter), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 kill | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 take | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kill | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 advice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not take a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | future | daughter | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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