The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 107
If you don’t guess rightly, you shall lose your head.’
Who acts: you · What happens: not guess, lose · To what, where: head
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), 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 | _ | 5 guess | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 guess | advmod |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lose | advcl |
| 6 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 5 guess | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guess | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lose | aux |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lose | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guess a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | rightly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | shall | you | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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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