The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 24
You had better sit down and think what you will do when your pockets are filled with gold and silver and jewels.’
Who acts: You · What happens: have, sit down, think, do, fill · To what, where: pockets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | xcomp |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sit | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 think | cc |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 filled | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filled | nsubj:pass | |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux:pass |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 do | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silver | cc |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gold | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jewels | cc |
| 22 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gold | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | infinitive | You not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | You not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fill | present · passive | your pockets | with gold and silver and jewels | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument |
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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