English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 22
And if you don't do that, you will have to forfeit your life.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, have, forfeit · To what, where: that, life
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forfeit | mark |
| 13 | forfeit | forfeit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forfeit | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | forfeit | to-infinitive | you not said here | your life | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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