The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 101
“You will have to fast if you want the spirits to make you strong and wise, and the sooner you begin the better.”
Who acts: You, spirits · What happens: have, fast, want, make, begin · To what, where: spirits, you, better
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, spirits), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fast | mark |
| 6 | fast | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 want | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spirits | det |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 want | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wise | cc |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strong | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begin | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begin | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sooner | det |
| 21 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 begin | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 begin | nsubj |
| 23 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 better | det |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 begin | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fast in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the spirits not said here | you | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 5 | begin in a quote | present | you | the better | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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