The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 75
He will give you some punishment, but then he will let you go.’
Who acts: king, you · What happens: give, let, go · To what, where: punishment, you
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 (king, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 punishment | det |
| 6 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 let | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | king | some punishment | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient punishment=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | future | king | you | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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