Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 159
"If you won't obey, you and I are done for," said Auburn Mary. "
Who acts: you, Auburn Mary · What happens: not obey, do, say · To what, where: you, Auburn Mary · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Auburn Mary), 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 | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 obey | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 obey | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obey | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 obey | advmod |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 obey | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obey | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 done | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Auburn | Auburn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mary | compound |
| 18 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not obey a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | you | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · passive | Auburn Mary = mary | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Auburn Mary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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