The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 116

‘You will recognise me by a tiny fly I shall have on my left cheek, but be careful for you might easily make a mistake.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: recognise, have, be, make · To what, where: me, tiny fly, left cheek, mistake

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	_	4 recognise	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 recognise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 recognise	aux
4	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 recognise	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 fly	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fly	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fly	amod
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recognise	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fly	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 cheek	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cheek	nmod:poss
15	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cheek	amod
16	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 careful	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 careful	cc
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 careful	cop
20	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 recognise	conj
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 make	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 make	advmod
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 careful	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mistake	det
27	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recognise	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 recognise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognise	future	You	me		by a tiny fly	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	have	shall	I	a tiny fly not said here	my left cheek		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient
3	is	infinitive	You not said here			careful property	tree rules
4	make	might	you	a mistake		easily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product

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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