The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 6
What good will it do you if you kill me--I shall not taste nice?
Who acts: water, you, I · What happens: do, kill, not taste · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 What | amod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taste | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | iobj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 taste | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 taste | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 taste | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 taste | advmod |
| 15 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 taste | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | water | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not taste | shall | I | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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