The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 87
However, if you have any fancy for wearing a mitre, you need only untie the sack, and take my place.’
Who acts: you · What happens: have, wear, untie, take · To what, where: fancy, mitre, sack, place
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 16 untie | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 untie | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fancy | det |
| 7 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 wearing | mark |
| 9 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 have | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mitre | det |
| 11 | mitre | mitre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wearing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 untie | nsubj |
| 14 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 untie | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 untie | advmod |
| 16 | untie | untie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sack | det |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 untie | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 untie | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 untie | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 untie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | any fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | you not said here | a mitre | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mitre=Source | ||||
| 3 | untie | present | you | the sack | however property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | my place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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