The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 100
If it bruises your knees never mind; you are on the road to fortune.
Who acts: stone, knees, you · What happens: bruise, not mind, be, fortune · To what, where: knees, road
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, knees, 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 bruises | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bruises | nsubj |
| 3 | bruises | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knees | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bruises | obj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knees | acl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 road | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 road | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 road | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 road | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bruises | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fortune | mark |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 road | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bruise | present | stone | your knees | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument knee=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not mind | infinitive | your knees not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | the road | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fortune | to-infinitive | stone not said here | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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