The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 18
And if _I_ do not put it, it will certainly be wiser for you not to do so!’
Who acts: I, right, you · What happens: not put, be, not do · To what, where: right
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, right, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wiser | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 if | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 I | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wiser | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wiser | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wiser | aux |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 wiser | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wiser | cop |
| 15 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wiser | acl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 wiser | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 wiser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | right | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is | future | right | certainly, wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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