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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 63

So long as the sap was fresh in the roots the magic staff could keep them in the forms you desired, but as the sap dried up they withered away.

Who acts: sap, magic staff, you, roots · What happens: be, keep, desire, dry up, wither away · To what, where: roots, forms, sap

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sap, magic staff, you, roots), 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

advmodadvmodmarkdetnsubjcopadvclcasedetobldetcompoundnsubjauxobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclpunctcccasedetoblaclcompound:prtnsubjparataxisadvmodpunctrootSoADVlongADVasSCONJtheDETsapNOUNwasAUXfreshADJinADPtheDETrootsNOUNtheDETmagicNOUNstaffNOUNcouldAUXkeepVERBthemPRONinADPtheDETformsNOUNyouPRONdesiredVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJasADPtheDETsapNOUNdriedVERBupADPtheyPRONwitheredVERBawayADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_2 longadvmod
2longlongADVDegree=Pos7 freshadvmod
3asasSCONJ_7 freshmark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sapdet
5sapSAPNOUNNumber=Sing7 freshnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 freshcop
7freshfreshADJDegree=Pos15 keepadvcl
8ininADP_10 rootscase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 rootsdet
10rootsrootNOUNNumber=Plur15 keepobl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 staffdet
12magicmagicNOUNNumber=Sing13 staffcompound
13staffstaffNOUNNumber=Sing15 keepnsubj
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 keepaux
15keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
16themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 keepobj
17ininADP_19 formscase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 formsdet
19formsformNOUNNumber=Plur15 keepobl
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 desirednsubj
21desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 formsacl:relcl
22,,PUNCT_30 witheredpunct
23butbutCCONJ_30 witheredcc
24asasADP_26 sapcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 sapdet
26sapSAPNOUNNumber=Sing30 witheredobl
27drieddryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 sapacl
28upupADP_27 driedcompound:prt
29theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 witherednsubj
30witheredwitherVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 keepparataxis
31awayawayADV_30 witheredadvmod
32..PUNCT_15 keeppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe sapfresh, long propertytree rules
2keepcouldthe magic staffroots = rootthe rootsin the formsvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in root=Location
3desirepastyouthe forms not said herevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot form=Theme
4dry upparticiplethe sap not said herevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5wither awaypastroots = rootas the sap; away propertyvn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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