The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 99
If you disobey the laws of the house you will soon find yourself a head shorter!
Who acts: you · What happens: disobey, find · To what, where: laws, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 3 disobey | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 disobey | nsubj |
| 3 | disobey | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 laws | det |
| 5 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disobey | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laws | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 find | advmod |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 find | xcomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the laws of the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | yourself | short, soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |
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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