The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 56

If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.’

Who acts: you, I, bad fellow, man, my · What happens: not obey, be, ruin, live, order · To what, where: orders, bad fellow, us

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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, bad fellow, man), 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	_	5 obey	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 obey	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 obey	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 obey	advmod
5	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 orders	nmod:poss
7	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 obey	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 angry	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 angry	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 angry	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 angry	advmod
12	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 orders	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fellow	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fellow	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fellow	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fellow	det
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fellow	amod
21	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obey	parataxis
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sure	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fellow	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ruin	mark
26	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	xcomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ruin	obj
28	all	all	ADV	_	31 lives	advmod
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 lives	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lives	nsubj
31	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ruin	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obey	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 obey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not obey	present · do-support	you	my orders		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	is	shall	I	my orders not said here	angry property	tree rules
3	is a	present		a bad fellow	for this young man	tree rules
4	is	present	a bad fellow		sure property	tree rules
5	ruin	to-infinitive	a bad fellow not said here	us		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
6	live a condition, not said to happen	present	man		all property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	order		my			nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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