The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 105
And if the wicked woman does not come one day to a better mind your double will be able at last to give her the punishment she deserves.’
Who acts: wicked woman, double, lady, your · What happens: not come, be, give, deserve, double · To what, where: last, punishment, lady
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked woman, double, lady, your), 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 | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mind | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mind | det |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 mind | amod |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 able | obl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 double | nmod:poss |
| 16 | double | double | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 able | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | cop |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 come | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 able | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 punishment | det |
| 26 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deserves | nsubj |
| 28 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 punishment | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present · do-support | the wicked woman | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | your double | last | to a better mind; able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | your double not said here | the punishment | lady | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient punishment=Theme | |||
| 4 | deserve | present | lady | the punishment not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | double | your | nom double «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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