The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 48
‘Don’t boast to your cousins of what you have got, One--two-- Or you’ll find you will catch it uncommonly hot, One--two--’
Who acts: you · What happens: not boast, get, find, catch · To what, where: cousins, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 boast | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 boast | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 boast | aux |
| 4 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cousins | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boast | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cousins | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 One | punct |
| 14 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 boast | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 One | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 boast | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 catch | aux |
| 24 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 find | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | obj |
| 26 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 27 hot | advmod |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 catch | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 One | punct |
| 29 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 catch | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 two | punct |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 One | conj |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 boast | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not boast speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your cousins | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cousin=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | find | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | future | you | cousin | One obl; hot property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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