The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 42
‘Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of years; take them and go and make your living or your fortune if you can.’
Who acts: fifty silver pieces, your · What happens: be, take, go, make, live · To what, where: fifty silver pieces, savings, living
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty silver pieces, your), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Moti | punct |
| 4 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pieces | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pieces | cop |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Here | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 savings | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 savings | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 savings | det |
| 13 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 pieces | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 savings | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 living | nmod:poss |
| 24 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fortune | cc |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 living | conj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 can | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 can | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fifty silver pieces and the savings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | fifty silver pieces and the savings | the savings | year | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | savings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | your living or your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | |||||
| 6 | live | your | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 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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