The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 2

If you eat the apple you will not desire anything else, and if you take the woman as your servant you will never wish for another.’

Who acts: you · What happens: eat, not desire, take, not wish · To what, where: apple, anything, woman

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 eat	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 desire	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 apple	det
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 desire	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 desire	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 desire	advmod
9	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 desire	obj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 anything	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wish	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wish	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 take	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
16	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wish	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 servant	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 servant	nmod:poss
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 wish	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wish	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 wish	advmod
25	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 desire	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 wish	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 desire	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the apple		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
2	not desire	future	you	anything		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
3	take a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the woman	as your servant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Theme as servant=Attribute
4	not wish	future	you		for another	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for another=Theme

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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