The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 28
Nobody will dare to beat you if I tell them not.
Who acts: Nobody, I · What happens: dare, beat, not tell · To what, where: you, strawberries · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nobody, I), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 dare | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dare | aux |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 beat | mark |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dare | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dare | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | future | Nobody | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | Nobody not said here | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | I | strawberries = strawberry | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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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