The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 51

It does not matter what work you do, but remember if you do it well and are faithful to your master, you will always have your reward.”

Who acts: It, you, your · What happens: not matter, do, remember, be, have, reward · To what, where: work, reward

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, your), 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	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remember	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 remember	cc
11	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matter	conj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 remember	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 do	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 faithful	cc
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 faithful	cop
19	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 do	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 master	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 faithful	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 remember	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 reward	nmod:poss
29	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			tree rules
2	do	present	you	what work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	remember	infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you	work	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	is	present	you not said here		to your master; faithful property	tree rules
6	have	future	you	your reward	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
7	reward		your			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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