The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 83
Fail in this, and you shall be hewn in a thousand pieces.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Fail | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hewn | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hewn | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hewn | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hewn | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hewn | cop |
| 9 | hewn | hewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Fail | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hewn | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fail | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | you | thousand pieces | hewn property | tree rules |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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