The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 10
‘Go if you like, you idiot; but what good will it do you?’
Who acts: you, idiot · What happens: go, like, idiot, do · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, idiot), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 idiot | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 idiot | nsubj |
| 8 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 what | amod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | iobj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | idiot | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | future | idiot | you | 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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