The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 14
But I warn you solemnly that if you disobey my directions, as you have done twice before, you have nothing more to expect either of me or anyone else.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: warn, disobey, do, have, expect · To what, where: you, directions, nothing, either
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 warn | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 warn | nsubj |
| 3 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 warn | obj |
| 5 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 3 warn | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 disobey | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 disobey | nsubj |
| 9 | disobey | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 directions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disobey | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 disobey | advcl |
| 17 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 before | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 done | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disobey | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warn | advcl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 nothing | amod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 expect | mark |
| 25 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 nothing | acl |
| 26 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 expect | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 either | nmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 anyone | cc |
| 30 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 nothing | conj |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 anyone | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warn | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 warn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | I | you | solemnly property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | disobey a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my directions | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | you | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | expect | to-infinitive | you not said here | either | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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