The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 127
You will be foolish indeed if you do not take me.’
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: me
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 foolish | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 foolish | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 foolish | cop |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 foolish | advmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 foolish | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 foolish | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | You | foolish, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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