The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 193
‘If you don’t bring it back full, your bones shall suffer for it.’
Who acts: you, bones · What happens: not bring back, suffer · To what, where: milk
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bones), 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 | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bring | advmod |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bring | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffer | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 suffer | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | aux |
| 14 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bring | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 suffer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring back | present · do-support | you | milk | full property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | suffer | shall | your bones | for milk | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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