The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 73
And be quick for you have no time to lose.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, have, lose
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 quick | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lose | mark |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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