The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 16
If you need food, or clothes, or a house, tell the ring and it will find them for you.
Who acts: you, ring · What happens: need, tell, find · To what, where: food, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ring), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 need | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | advcl |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clothes | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 clothes | cc |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 food | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 house | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | food or clothes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the ring | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | future | ring | food | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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