The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 106
‘Well, if you will not leave me, I will throw you off,’ said the bird.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not leave, throw off, say · To what, where: me, you, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 throw | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 throw | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 throw | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 throw | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 throw | aux |
| 13 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 throw | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 throw | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 throw | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 throw | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw off | future | I | you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | tree rules |
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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