The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 65
‘If you do not get this sorted, and all the seed back into the pot, I shall kill you!’
Who acts: I · What happens: sort, kill · To what, where: seed, pot, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorted | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorted | aux:pass |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 kill | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seed | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 seed | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seed | det |
| 13 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorted | obl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 seed | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorted | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | infinitive · passive | I not said here | all seed | into the pot goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: into pot=Goal | |||
| 2 | kill | shall | I | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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