The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 117
If your son carries out my order, he shall be rewarded with my daughter; but if he fails, away to the tar-barrel and the stake with you both!’
Who acts: son, my · What happens: carry out, reward, fail, order · To what, where: order, son
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, my), 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 | _ | 4 carries | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 carries | compound:prt |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 order | nmod:poss |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carries | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 rewarded | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 12 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carries | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rewarded | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fails | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fails | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fails | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fails | nsubj |
| 20 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carries | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 fails | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 barrel | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 barrel | det |
| 25 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 barrel | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 tar | punct |
| 27 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stake | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stake | det |
| 30 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fails | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 stake | conj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 stake | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 stake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | present | your son | my order | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reward | shall · passive | son | with my daughter | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with daughter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | son | away property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | order | my | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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