The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 25

Speak if you are an honest fellow, or I’ll knock you down the stairs.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, be, knock down · To what, where: honest fellow, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 fellow	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 fellow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speak	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knock	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 knock	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knock	nsubj
11	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 knock	aux
12	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Speak	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 knock	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 knock	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stairs	det
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knock	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a honest fellow		tree rules
3	knock down	future	I	you	the stairs obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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