The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 10
‘Nevertheless, return to the castle, and act as you will find needful.’
Who acts: you · What happens: return, act, find
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. 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 | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 2 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 return | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nevertheless | punct |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 act | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 act | cc |
| 10 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 return | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 act | advcl |
| 15 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 find | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | to the castle result; nevertheless property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | act | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | future | you | needful property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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 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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