The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 103
If you wish to punish a scoundrel, the first thing to do is to give him power.
Who acts: you, first thing · What happens: wish, punish, do, be · To what, where: scoundrel, man
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, first thing), 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 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 punish | mark |
| 5 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scoundrel | det |
| 7 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thing | acl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a scoundrel | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scoundrel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the first thing | man | give 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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