The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 127
If you wish it, the wonder-ship shall take you back to your father and your own country; but if you will consent to stay here, then reign over me and my country as our queen.”
Who acts: you, wonder ship · What happens: wish, take back, consent, stay, reign · To what, where: loveliness, you, father
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wonder ship), 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 | 11 take | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 7 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ship | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 country | cc |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 consent | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 consent | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 consent | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 consent | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 consent | aux |
| 26 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 stay | mark |
| 28 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 consent | xcomp |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stay | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reign | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 reign | advmod |
| 32 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 consent | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 reign | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 country | cc |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 country | nmod:poss |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 me | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 queen | case |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 queen | nmod:poss |
| 40 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reign | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | 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 | loveliness | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take back | shall | the wonder ship | you | your father and your own country | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 3 | consent a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reign | infinitive | you not said here | then | over me; as our queen | 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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