The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 108
If you take as much as you can carry you will have sufficient to last your lifetime, and you may return three times; but woe betide you if you venture to come a fourth time.
Who acts: you, woe · What happens: take, carry, have, last, return, betide · To what, where: much, lifetime, you
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, woe), 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 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 betide | advcl |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | aux |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 much | acl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 carry | ccomp |
| 13 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 last | mark |
| 15 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sufficient | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 return | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 return | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 times | nummod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 return | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 betide | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 betide | cc |
| 27 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 betide | nsubj |
| 28 | betide | betide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 betide | obj |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 venture | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 venture | nsubj |
| 32 | venture | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 betide | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 come | mark |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 venture | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 come | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 betide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | much | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | can | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | future | you | sufficient property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | last | to-infinitive | you not said here | your lifetime | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lifetime=Value | ||||
| 5 | return | may | you | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | betide | present | woe | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | venture a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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