The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 31
Breathe upon the white side and your looks will not alter, but you will grow better and happier day by day.
Who acts: you, looks · What happens: breathe, not alter, grow
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, looks), 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 | Breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breathe | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 alter | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 looks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 alter | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 alter | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 alter | advmod |
| 11 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Breathe | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grow | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 grow | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 grow | aux |
| 16 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Breathe | conj |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 grow | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 day | cc |
| 19 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grow | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grow | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | imperative | you not said here | upon the white side | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not alter | future | your looks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | future | you | day | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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