The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 93
If you wish it I will build you quite a simple boat—one, two, three, and it’s done!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wish, build, do · To what, where: ship, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 build | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | aux |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 build | obj |
| 9 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 boat | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 11 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 boat | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 three | punct |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 done | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 build | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | ship | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | future | I | you | quite simple boat obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | |||
| 3 | do | present · passive | ship | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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