The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 25
If you wish to be pretty you shall have your way, but you will also be vain, capricious, and frivolous.
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 vain | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | cop |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 vain | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 vain | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 vain | aux |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 vain | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 vain | cop |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 capricious | punct |
| 20 | capricious | capricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vain | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 frivolous | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 frivolous | cc |
| 23 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vain | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | shall · to-infinitive | you | have, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | you | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | you 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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