The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 1

‘Get along with you--you are no better than silly donkeys without any sense; if you had only drowned me in deeper water I would have returned with three times as many sheep.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: get along, not be, drown, return · To what, where: you, deeper water, many sheep

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 Get	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Get	obl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 better	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 better	cop
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Get	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 donkeys	case
12	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 donkeys	amod
13	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 better	obl
14	without	without	ADP	_	16 sense	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 sense	det
16	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Get	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 drowned	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 drowned	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 drowned	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drowned	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 drowned	advmod
22	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Get	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 drowned	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 water	amod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drowned	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 returned	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 returned	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 returned	aux
30	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 drowned	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 times	case
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 returned	obl
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 many	advmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sheep	amod
36	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 returned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get along	imperative	you not said here				with you; without any sense; along property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	present	you				than silly donkeys; good property	tree rules
3	drown a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		you	deeper water			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient i=Result
4	return	would · perfect	I	many sheep		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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