The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 104
‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you well; In future leave the stick alone,
Who acts: Blows, We · What happens: hurt, remember, mean, leave · To what, where: crone, you, stick, future
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blows, We), 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 | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 2 | Blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 remember | punct |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurt | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crone | punct |
| 8 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remember | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 mean | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | obj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 mean | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 future | case |
| 21 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obl |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stick | det |
| 24 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obj |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 leave | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | future | Blows | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | Blows not said here | crone | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent crone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | We | you | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 4 | mean | present | we | you | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 5 | leave | present | the stick | future | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in future=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 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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