The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 137

“Very well; if you are so sure that the feather is yours, yours it shall be; only you will have to seek till you find a golden hen with a feather missing from her tail.

Who acts: you, feather · What happens: be, have, seek, find, miss · To what, where: yours, golden hen, tail

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feather), 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	_	3 well	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 sure	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 sure	advmod
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 well	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 yours	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 yours	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 yours	cop
14	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sure	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yours	punct
16	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 yours	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 be	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 yours	cop
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 seek	mark
26	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 find	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
29	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seek	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hen	det
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hen	amod
32	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 feather	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 feather	det
35	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hen	nmod
36	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 feather	acl
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 tail	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tail	nmod:poss
39	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 missing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you			sure property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the feather	yours			tree rules
3	have in a quote	future	you				tree rules
4	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find in a quote	present	you	a golden hen		with a feather	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic
6	miss in a quote	gerund	a feather not said here		gardener's tail		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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