The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 90
If you don’t hand over all the money at once you will be tried for daring to raise treasure without giving due notice to the governor about it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: not hand over, try, dare, raise, give · To what, where: money, you, treasure, due notice, governor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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 | _ | 5 hand | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hand | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hand | advmod |
| 5 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 hand | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 money | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 money | det |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | obj |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 tried | mark |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 tried | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tried | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | aux:pass |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hand | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 daring | mark |
| 17 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tried | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 raise | mark |
| 19 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 daring | xcomp |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raise | obj |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 giving | mark |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 raise | advcl |
| 23 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 notice | amod |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 governor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 governor | det |
| 27 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 governor | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hand over | present · do-support | you | all money | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | future · passive | you | once property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dare | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | raise | to-infinitive | treasure | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | due notice | the governor about notice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent notice=Theme to governor=Recipient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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