The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 31
If you attempt to deceive me you shall be put to death!”
Who acts: you · What happens: attempt, deceive, put · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 attempt | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 attempt | nsubj |
| 3 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 deceive | mark |
| 5 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempt | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deceive | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | shall · passive | you | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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