The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 66
‘Steal them if thou wilt; there is no time to go back.’
Who acts: you, time · What happens: steal, be, go back · To what, where: tools
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Steal | punct |
| 2 | Steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Steal | obj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 wilt | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 wilt | nsubj |
| 6 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 2 Steal | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Steal | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Steal | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | imperative | you not said here | tools = tool | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | no time not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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