The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 80
It is needful that a Christian should die before you can enjoy the wealth of Plouhinec.’
Who acts: It, Christian, you · What happens: be, die, enjoy · To what, where: wealth
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Christian, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 needful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needful | cop |
| 3 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Christian | det |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 die | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needful | csubj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 enjoy | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoy | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 enjoy | aux |
| 12 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wealth | det |
| 14 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enjoy | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Plouhinec | case |
| 16 | Plouhinec | Plouhinec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wealth | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needful | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 needful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | needful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | should | a Christian | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | can | you | the wealth of Plouhinec | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus |
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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