The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 124
If you don’t do YOUR duty then, woe be with you!”
Who acts: you, woe · What happens: not do, be · To what, where: duty
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woe), 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 | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 you | advcl |
| 6 | YOUR | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 you | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 you | cop |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 you | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | YOUR duty | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | woe | with you | tree rules |
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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