The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 61
If you can tell me what you will get for your roast meat, you shall be free, and shall also keep the whip.’
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, get, be, keep · To what, where: me, whip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. 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 | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 get | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 meat | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 meat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | compound |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 free | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | cop |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 keep | cc |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 keep | aux |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 keep | advmod |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 whip | det |
| 25 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | can | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | future | you | for your roast meat | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme for meat=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | you | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | shall | the whip | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme |
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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