The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 33
And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.’
Who acts: you, I, daughter, kingdom · What happens: say, foretell, come, pass, not come, fall · To what, where: daughter, everything, ruin, one stone, another · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, daughter, kingdom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 say | cc |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 come | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 foretell | nsubj |
| 8 | foretell | foretell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pass | mark |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 come | obj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 fall | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fall | aux |
| 25 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | advcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 ruin | case |
| 27 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 one | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 stone | nummod |
| 32 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 left | aux:pass |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fall | parataxis |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 another | case |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 left | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | daughter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | foretell | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | shall | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not come a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | daughter | everything | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | shall | the kingdom | into ruin result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ruin=Result | ||||
| 7 | leave | shall · passive | one stone | another | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme upon another=Location |
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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