The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 60

But if we take it and bury it in different parts of the world they will have to work for it if they want it, and then will only find a little at a time.”

Who acts: we, parts · What happens: take, bury, have, work, want, find · To what, where: gold, different parts, little

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, parts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 take	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 have	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bury	cc
7	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bury	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 parts	case
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 parts	amod
11	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bury	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 parts	nmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 work	obl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 work	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 find	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 find	advmod
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 find	advmod
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 find	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 time	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 time	det
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present	we	gold				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	bury	infinitive	we not said here	gold	different parts of the world			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in part=Destination
3	have	future	parts = part					tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	parts = part not said here				for gold	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary
5	want a condition, not said to happen	present	parts = part	gold				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	find	future	parts = part not said here	a little		then; time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic

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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