The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 61
If I send you home, you will come back, and kill me.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: send, come back, kill · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 send | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 send | iobj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 send | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send a condition, not said to happen | present | I | you | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | come back | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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