The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 51

If you tell a lie to-day and say you struck a wolf, to-morrow surely it will eat you up.’

Who acts: you, morrow · What happens: tell, say, strike, eat up · To what, where: lie, wolf, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, morrow), 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	_	3 tell	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wolf	det
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morrow	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obl
19	surely	surely	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 struck	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 eat	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	you	a lie	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	past	you	a wolf		to morrow result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient to morrow=Result
4	eat up	future	morrow	you		surely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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.

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