The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 55

“It springs from the rock of eternity; you have only to sprinkle a few drops on a body and it will come to life again, if it had been a thousand years dead.”

Who acts: corner, you · What happens: spring, sprinkle, come, be · To what, where: rock, few drops, body, life, thousand years

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 (corner, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 springs	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 springs	nsubj
3	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 springs	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 eternity	case
8	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rock	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 sprinkle	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sprinkle	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sprinkle	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 sprinkle	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sprinkle	mark
14	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 springs	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drops	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 drops	amod
17	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sprinkle	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 body	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 body	det
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drops	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sprinkle	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 life	case
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 years	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 years	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 years	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 years	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 years	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 thousand	det
34	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 dead	obl:unmarked
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sprinkle	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 springs	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 springs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring in a quote	present	corner		the rock of eternity			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory
2	sprinkle in a quote	present	you	a few drops	a body		dead obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on body=Destination
3	come in a quote	future	corner		life	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	corner	thousand years				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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