The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 102
If I can’t get you to go by using good words, I will soon make you go with bad ones.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not get, go, use, make · To what, where: you, good words
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 get | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 using | mark |
| 10 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 using | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ones | case |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen | can | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | you not said here | good words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | future | I | you | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | you not said here | with bad ones | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with one=Beneficiary |
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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