The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 46
“If you want her so much you had better take her.”
Who acts: you · What happens: want, have, take · To what, where: use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 want | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 had | xcomp |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 better | csubj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | use | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | use | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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