The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 24

It has the power to become anything you wish it to be, when you are in need.”

Who acts: rod, you · What happens: have, become, wish, be · To what, where: power, rod, need

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rod, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 power	det
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 become	mark
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 power	acl
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 become	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
9	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 anything	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wish	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wish	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 need	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 need	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 need	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 need	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 need	case
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anything	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	rod	the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	become	to-infinitive	rod not said here	the power not said here		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	wish	present	you	rod		tree rules
4	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	you		need	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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