The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 96
You will find yourself sinking slowly to the bottom; but take courage, all will go well.
Who acts: You, yourself, all · What happens: find, sink, take, go · To what, where: yourself, courage
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, yourself, all), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 sinking | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bottom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | parataxis |
| 13 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | yourself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sink | gerund | yourself not said here | to the bottom; slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | future | all | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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