The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 25
The voice replied, ‘Very well; but it will go ill with you if you fail to keep your promise.’
Who acts: voice, you, your · What happens: reply, go, fail, not keep, promise · To what, where: promise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (voice, you, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 6 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 go | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ill | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 fail | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fail | xcomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 promise | nmod:poss |
| 22 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the voice | well property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | future | voice | ill property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | your promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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