The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 56
If once you take off the cover, there is an end of your good fortune.’
Who acts: you, end · What happens: take off, be · To what, where: cover
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, end), 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 | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 2 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 is | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cover | det |
| 7 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fortune | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fortune | amod |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a end of your good fortune | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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