The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 104

If you want to procure the root ask a wood-seller; it is a common thing for hunters to need, and it is not hard to find.

Who acts: you, root · What happens: want, procure, ask, be, need, not be · To what, where: root, wood seller, common thing

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 (you, root), 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 want	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 procure	mark
5	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 root	det
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 procure	obj
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 procure	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 seller	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seller	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thing	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 hunters	case
20	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thing	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 need	mark
22	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thing	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hard	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hard	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hard	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 hard	advmod
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hard	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	procure not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the root		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	a wood seller		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seller=Recipient
4	is a	present	root	a common thing	for hunters	tree rules
5	need	to-infinitive	root not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	not is	present			hard property	tree rules
7	find	to-infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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