The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 61

You must argue with me, and decline to obey me, and then I shall plunge my knife into the bladder, and you must fall to the ground as if you were dead.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: argue, decline, not obey, plunge, fall, be · To what, where: me, knife, bladder

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 argue	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 argue	aux
3	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 argue	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 decline	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 decline	cc
8	decline	decline	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 argue	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 obey	mark
10	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decline	xcomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 obey	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plunge	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plunge	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 plunge	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 plunge	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 plunge	aux
17	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decline	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knife	nmod:poss
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plunge	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 bladder	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bladder	det
22	bladder	bladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plunge	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fall	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fall	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 fall	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fall	aux
27	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decline	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 dead	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fall	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	must	You				with me	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
2	decline	infinitive						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not obey	to-infinitive		me				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	plunge	shall	I	my knife	the bladder	then		tree rules
5	fall	must	you				to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
6	is	past	you				dead 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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