The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 114
‘If you will take my counsel, you will play with someone else.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, play · To what, where: counsel
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 play | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 play | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 play | aux |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 someone | case |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 play | obl |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 someone | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | my counsel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | future | you | with someone | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent |
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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