The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 36
Well, well, you have chosen your own path; and if ill comes of it beware lest you grumble.'
Who acts: you, path · What happens: choose, come, beware, grumble · To what, where: own path
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, path), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 chosen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 chosen | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 chosen | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 path | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 path | amod |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comes | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 ill | mark |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 comes | advcl |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 beware | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beware | nsubj |
| 18 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 comes | advcl |
| 19 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 21 grumble | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 grumble | nsubj |
| 21 | grumble | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 beware | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · perfect | you | your own path | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | beware | present | path | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | grumble speech: other | present | you | vn complain-37.8 «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 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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