The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 101
‘Something fearful will happen to you if you do,’ replied the horse sadly.
Who acts: Something, you · What happens: happen, do, reply · To what, where: you, horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, 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 | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Something | amod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 happen | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 13 replied | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | Something | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the horse | sadly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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