The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 16
If not, your head shall pay the forfeit.’
Who acts: head · What happens: pay · To what, where: forfeit
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | _ | 2 not | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pay | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 not | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forfeit | det |
| 9 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | your head | the forfeit | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forfeit=Asset |
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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