Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 29
And if it is naughty and does not do what it is told, I shall be very stern and stamp my foot, so!”
Who acts: child, I · What happens: be, not do, tell, stamp · To what, where: child, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 naughty | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 naughty | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 naughty | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 naughty | cop |
| 5 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 naughty | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 told | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 do | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stern | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stern | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stern | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stern | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 stern | advmod |
| 19 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 naughty | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stamp | cc |
| 21 | stamp | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stern | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stamp | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 so | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 naughty | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 so | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 naughty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | child | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | present · do-support | child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | child | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | stern property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stamp | infinitive | I not said here | my foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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