The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 114
If you love me as much as you say you do, you will go out and hunt for a nyamatsane, and will kill it and get its liver.
Who acts: you · What happens: love, say, do, go out, hunt, kill · To what, where: me, nyamatsane, liver · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 love | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 love | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 much | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hunt | cc |
| 18 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 nyamatsane | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 nyamatsane | det |
| 21 | nyamatsane | nyamatsane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunt | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kill | cc |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 get | cc |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | conj |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 liver | nmod:poss |
| 30 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go out | future | you | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hunt | infinitive | you not said here | for a nyamatsane | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for nyamatsane=Theme | ||||
| 6 | kill | future | nyamatsane | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get | infinitive | nyamatsane's liver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liver=Stimulus |
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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