The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 74
If you do, you will straightway bring misfortune on yourself.’
Who acts: you · What happens: do, bring · To what, where: misfortune
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 (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 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 7 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 yourself | case |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | future | you | misfortune | on yourself | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme on yourself=Destination |
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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