The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 8
Whatever is, must be, but this counsel I will give you.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: Whatever, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 give | obl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whatever | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Whatever | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 counsel | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 counsel | det |
| 9 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whatever | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must · present | Whatever | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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