The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 93

What you must do is to wash them in the river till the black one becomes white and the white black.'

Who acts: black one · What happens: be, become · To what, where: river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black one), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 wash	aux
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wash	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wash	mark
7	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wash	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wash	obl
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 becomes	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	nsubj
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wash	advcl
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 becomes	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 black	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 black	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 black	amod
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 becomes	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wash	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 wash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive · do-support				the river		wash property	tree rules
2	become	present	the black one					white property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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