The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 54
See what happens when people do not keep their promises!
Who acts: you, people · What happens: see, happen, not keep, promise · To what, where: promises · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 keep | advmod |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happens | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 promises | nmod:poss |
| 10 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not keep | present · do-support | people | people's promises | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise | people | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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