The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 35
He threatened to beat her if she did not hold her tongue.
Who acts: God, woman · What happens: threaten, beat, not hold · To what, where: woman, tongue
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, woman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threatened | nsubj |
| 2 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 beat | mark |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 threatened | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 hold | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hold | advmod |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beat | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | God | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat not said to happen | to-infinitive | God not said here | woman | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hold a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | woman | woman's tongue | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
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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