The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 4
If they did not do as she told them she would beat them till they bled.
Who acts: beasts, witch · What happens: not do, tell, beat, bleed · To what, where: beasts · 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 (beasts, 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 | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 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 | 12 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 beat | aux |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beat | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 bled | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bled | nsubj |
| 16 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beat | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · do-support | beasts = beast | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | witch | beasts = beast | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | beat | would | witch | beasts = beast | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bleed | past | beasts = beast | 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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