The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 36
If you don’t, may I burn my crutch!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, burn · To what, where: crutch
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 burn | advcl |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 burn | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 burn | nsubj |
| 8 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crutch | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burn | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | burn | may | I | my crutch | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crutch=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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