The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 181
If you do not do this I will land all my cats upon your island, and you shall be exterminated.”
Who acts: I · What happens: land, exterminate · To what, where: cats, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 land | aux |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 land | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 land | aux |
| 9 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 cats | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cats | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 land | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 island | nmod:poss |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cats | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exterminated | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 exterminated | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 exterminated | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 exterminated | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 exterminated | aux:pass |
| 21 | exterminated | exterminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 land | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | future · infinitive · do-support | I | my cats | upon your island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 2 | exterminate | shall · passive | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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