The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 68
He who stands well with Ahti is soon a rich man, but one must beware in dealing with him, for he is very changeful and touchy.
Who acts: Ahti, one · What happens: stand, be, beware, deal · To what, where: rich man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahti, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stands | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 man | mark |
| 6 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | cop |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 man | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beware | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 beware | cc |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beware | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 beware | aux |
| 16 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stands | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 dealing | mark |
| 18 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 beware | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dealing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 changeful | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 changeful | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 changeful | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 changeful | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 changeful | advmod |
| 26 | changeful | changeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beware | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 touchy | cc |
| 28 | touchy | touchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 changeful | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Ahti | well property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Ahti | a rich man | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beware | must | one | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | deal | gerund | one not said here | with Ahti | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Ahti | changeful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Ahti not said here | tree rules |
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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