The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 48
‘Take courage, Princess; upon this adventure your future happiness depends.’
Who acts: you, future happiness · What happens: take, depend · To what, where: courage
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, future happiness), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 courage | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 depends | punct |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 adventure | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 adventure | det |
| 9 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depends | obl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happiness | compound |
| 12 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depends | nsubj |
| 13 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | courage and Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depend | present | your future happiness | upon this adventure | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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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