The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 38

Come down at once, whoever you are, or we must come and fetch you.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come down, be, come, fetch · To what, where: whoever, 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, we), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whoever	punct
6	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Come	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 whoever	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 whoever	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fetch	cc
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come down	imperative	you not said here		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	is a	present	you	whoever		tree rules
3	come	must	we			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	we not said here	you		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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