The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 48
If you don’t speak I shan’t open the door.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not speak, not open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. 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 | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 open | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 open | nsubj |
| 7 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 open | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 open | advmod |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not open | I | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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