The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 36

‘If you wish to enter the first eleven cellars,’ said she, ‘you can; but beware of even unlocking the door of the twelfth, or it will be the worse for you.’

Who acts: you, worse, door · What happens: wish, enter, say, beware, unlock, be · To what, where: first eleven cellars, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, worse, door), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 wish	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 enter	mark
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cellars	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 cellars	amod
9	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cellars	nummod
10	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enter	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 can	punct
16	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	18 can	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 beware	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 beware	cc
21	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 unlocking	mark
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 unlocking	advmod
24	unlocking	unlock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 beware	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unlocking	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 twelfth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 twelfth	det
29	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 door	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 worse	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 worse	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 worse	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 worse	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 worse	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 worse	det
36	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 said	nsubj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 worse	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the first eleven cellars		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cellar=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the worse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	beware	infinitive	the worse not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	unlock	gerund	the worse not said here	the door of the twelfth		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	is	future	door		for you; bad property	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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