The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 106
‘Fasten this necklace round your neck, and as long as you wear it you will be the most beautiful woman in the world,’ continued the fairy.
Who acts: you · What happens: fasten, wear, be, continue · To what, where: necklace, beautiful woman, world, fairy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fasten | punct |
| 2 | Fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 continued | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 necklace | det |
| 4 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fasten | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 neck | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fasten | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 long | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Fasten | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 wear | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wear | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 woman | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 woman | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 woman | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wear | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 woman | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fasten | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fasten | punct |
| 28 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fairy | det |
| 30 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 continued | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | infinitive | this necklace | round your neck; long property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | you | necklace | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | you | the beautiful woman | the world | tree rules | |||
| 4 | continue | past | the fairy | 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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