The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 115

If a man would pass his life in ease and pleasantness, let him take the right-hand path.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: pass, let, take · To what, where: life, ease, man, hand path

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 pass	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pass	aux
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 ease	case
9	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pleasantness	cc
11	pleasantness	pleasantness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ease	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 path	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 path	compound
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass a condition, not said to happen	would	a man	man's life	ease and pleasantness	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent life=Theme in ease=Destination
2	let	imperative	you not said here	man		tree rules
3	take	infinitive	man not said here	the hand path		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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 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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