The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 102
So if in time to come you need a friend, wish for me, and I will not fail you.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, need, wish, not fail · To what, where: friend, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 wish | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 need | mark |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fail | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fail | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fail | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fail | advmod |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fail | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a friend | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | imperative | you not said here | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not fail | future | I | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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