The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 68

May your life be as prosperous and bright as sunrise on a clear day!’

Who acts: life · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prosperous	aux
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prosperous	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 prosperous	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 prosperous	case
6	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bright	cc
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prosperous	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 sunrise	case
10	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prosperous	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sunrise	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 prosperous	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 prosperous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	your life				sunrise	prosperous property	tree rules
2	be		your life not said here						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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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