The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 45

Should thy dancing please us, perhaps we may be able to do something; but shouldst thou dance badly, we shall assuredly punish thee, so now take warning and dance away.’

Who acts: we, thou, thy · What happens: be, do, dance, punish, take, dance away · To what, where: something, thee, warning

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 (we, thou, thy), 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	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dancing	aux
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 dancing	nmod:poss
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	please	please	INTJ	_	5 us	discourse
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dancing	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 able	punct
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 able	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 able	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 able	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dancing	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 do	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 dance	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 dance	cc
17	shouldst	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	19 dance	aux
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 dance	nsubj
19	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dancing	parataxis
20	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 dance	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 punish	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 punish	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 punish	aux
24	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	_	25 punish	advmod
25	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dance	conj
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 punish	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 take	advmod
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 take	advmod
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 punish	parataxis
31	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dance	cc
33	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 take	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 dance	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 dance	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	we			able, perhaps property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	we not said here	something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	dance	should	thou			badly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	punish	shall	we	thee		assuredly property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
5	take	present		warning	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
6	dance away	infinitive				away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dance		thy				nom dancing «act 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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