The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 137
‘Unless you restore my brothers and their beasts back to life at once, my lion will tear you in pieces.’
Who acts: you, lion · What happens: restore, tear · To what, where: brothers, life, you, pieces
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lion), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 tear | punct |
| 2 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 4 restore | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 restore | nsubj |
| 4 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tear | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 restore | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beasts | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brothers | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 life | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restore | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 restore | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 restore | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tear | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tear | aux |
| 19 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tear | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pieces | case |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tear | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tear | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my brothers and brothers's beasts | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tear | future | my lion | you | pieces | tree rules |
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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