The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 16
If they failed to do as she told them she would certainly beat them this time till they bled.
Who acts: horses, witch · What happens: fail, not do, tell, beat, bleed · To what, where: horses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (horses, witch), 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 failed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 failed | nsubj |
| 3 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 failed | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 beat | aux |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 beat | advmod |
| 13 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beat | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 bled | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bled | nsubj |
| 19 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beat | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | horses = horse | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | witch | horses = horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | beat | would | witch | horses = horse | time | certainly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||
| 5 | bleed | past | horses = horse | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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