The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 205

‘In four weeks you will be married!’ said the field-mouse; ‘don’t be obstinate, or I shall bite you with my sharp white teeth!

Who acts: I · What happens: marry, say, not be, bite · To what, where: you, field mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	8 married	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 weeks	case
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 weeks	nummod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 married	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj:pass
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 married	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 married	aux:pass
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 married	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 married	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mouse	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 field	punct
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 obstinate	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 obstinate	punct
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 obstinate	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 obstinate	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 obstinate	cop
21	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bite	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 bite	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bite	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bite	aux
26	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obstinate	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bite	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	32 teeth	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 teeth	nmod:poss
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 teeth	amod
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 teeth	amod
32	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bite	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	future · passive		you	week		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		the field mouse			tree rules
3	not is	infinitive · do-support				obstinate property	tree rules
4	bite	shall	I	you		with my sharp white teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with tooth=Instrument

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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