The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 19
If he does this he may go free; if not he shall be hung as you have said.’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: do, go, hang, say · To what, where: this, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 does | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 not | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 hung | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hung | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hung | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hung | aux:pass |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 go | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 hung | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | King | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | may | King | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | shall · passive | King | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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