The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 204
But if you don’t—why, then you mustn’t be annoyed at finding your head stuck on top of the last pole up there.’
Who acts: you, head · What happens: not do, not be, find, stick · To what, where: head, top
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 annoyed | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoyed | advcl |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 why | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 annoyed | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 annoyed | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoyed | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 annoyed | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 annoyed | cop |
| 14 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 16 finding | mark |
| 16 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 annoyed | advcl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finding | obj |
| 19 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 finding | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuck | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pole | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pole | det |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pole | amod |
| 25 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 top | nmod |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 there | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stuck | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 annoyed | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 annoyed | 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 | not is | must | you | then | annoyed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | you not said here | your head | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent head=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | participle | your head not said here | top of the last pole; there | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=Destination |
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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