The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 29

‘If you dance well and please them they will grant you a petition and you can then beg to be cured; but if you dance badly they will most likely do you some mischief out of spite.’

Who acts: you, dwarfs · What happens: dance, grant, beg, cure, do · To what, where: petition, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dwarfs), 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 dance	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 dance	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dance	nsubj
4	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dance	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grant	cc
7	please	please	INTJ	_	11 grant	discourse
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 please	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grant	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grant	aux
11	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dance	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 grant	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 petition	det
14	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grant	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beg	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 beg	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 beg	aux
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 beg	advmod
19	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grant	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 cured	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cured	aux:pass
22	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 beg	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 dance	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 dance	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 dance	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 dance	nsubj
27	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dance	conj
28	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 dance	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 likely	advmod
32	likely	likely	ADV	_	33 do	advmod
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dance	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 do	obj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 mischief	det
36	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	39 spite	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 spite	case
39	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mischief	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	you				well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grant	future	dwarfs = dwarf	a petition	you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal petition=Theme
3	beg speech: request	can	you			then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	cure	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»
5	dance a condition, not said to happen	present	you				badly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	future	dwarfs = dwarf	you			likely 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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