The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 24

If you can, I will give you a robe of honour; but if you fail, I will order you to receive twelve strokes on your cheeks, and five-and-twenty on the soles of your feet, because you have been falsely called Selim the learned.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, fail, order, receive, call, learn · To what, where: robe, you, twelve strokes, cheeks, five · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 can	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 robe	det
10	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 honour	case
12	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 robe	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 order	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 order	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fail	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 fail	nsubj
17	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 order	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fail	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 order	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 order	aux
21	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 order	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 receive	mark
24	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 order	advcl
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 strokes	nummod
26	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 receive	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 cheeks	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cheeks	nmod:poss
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 strokes	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 called	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 called	cc
32	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 called	nsubj:pass
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 twenty	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 twenty	cc
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 twenty	punct
36	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 five	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 soles	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 soles	det
39	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 twenty	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 feet	case
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 feet	nmod:poss
42	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 soles	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 called	punct
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 called	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 called	nsubj:pass
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 called	aux
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 called	aux:pass
48	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	49 called	advmod
49	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 give	parataxis
50	Selim	Selim	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 called	xcomp
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 learned	det
52	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 called	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	can · future	I	a robe of honour	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient robe=Theme
2	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	order	future	I		you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	receive	to-infinitive	I not said here	twelve strokes		your cheeks		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme on cheek=Location
5	call	present · perfect · passive		five			falsely property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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