The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 77

Have patience for a little, and then without fail you shall have your puppets to play with.”

Who acts: you, puppets · What happens: have, play · To what, where: patience, puppets

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 (you, puppets), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Have	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 little	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 patience	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 have	advmod
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 fail	case
10	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Have	parataxis
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 puppets	nmod:poss
15	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	17 play	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	patience		for a little	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
2	have	shall	you	your puppets	then	without fail	tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive	your puppets not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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