The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 44

“Good people, you who are reaping, if you do not tell the King that all this corn belongs to the Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot.”

Who acts: Good people, you, corn · What happens: reap, not tell, belong, chop · To what, where: King, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good people, you, corn), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 reaping	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reaping	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 reaping	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reaping	aux
8	reaping	reap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 tell	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reaping	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 belongs	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 corn	det
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 corn	det
20	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 belongs	nsubj
21	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 King	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Marquis	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Marquis	det
24	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 belongs	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Carabas	case
26	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Marquis	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chopped	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 chopped	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 chopped	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 chopped	aux:pass
31	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tell	advcl
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 small	case
33	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chopped	obl
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 herbs	case
35	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chopped	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 pot	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pot	det
38	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 herbs	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reaping	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 reaping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reap in a quote	present · progressive	Good people you				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you		the King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	belong in a quote	present	all corn	the King		to the Marquis of Carabas	tree rules
4	chop in a quote	shall · passive		you		as small; as herbs for the pot	vn carve-21.2-2 «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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