The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 67
If you don’t obey my orders I shall be very angry.’
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: not obey, be, order · To what, where: orders
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, my), 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 | 5 obey | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | 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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