The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 25

‘If I am pleased with you, I’ll reward you; but if I am not, I’ll put you in a pan and fry you in the oven--that’s what I’ll do with you, my pretty dears!

Who acts: I, that · What happens: be, reward, put, do · To what, where: you, pan

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 pleased	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reward	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 reward	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 reward	aux
11	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 reward	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 am	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 am	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 put	advcl
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 am	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 am	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
21	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 pan	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pan	det
26	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fry	cc
28	fry	fry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pan	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 fry	appos
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 oven	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oven	det
32	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 what	nsubj
35	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 what	cop
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pleased	conj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 what	acl:relcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 do	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dears	punct
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 dears	nmod:poss
44	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dears	amod
45	dears	dear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 what	conj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				with you; pleased property	tree rules
2	reward	future	I		you			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	put	future	I	you		a pan and fry	in the oven	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in pan=Destination
4	is a	present	that					tree rules
5	do	future	I				with you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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