The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 46
‘Be firm, happen what may, and seek the Golden Branch.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, happen, seek · To what, where: Golden Branch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. 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 | _ | 3 firm | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 firm | cop |
| 3 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 firm | parataxis |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | obj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | aux |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seek | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seek | cc |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Branch | det |
| 12 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Branch | amod |
| 13 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 firm | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 firm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | the Golden Branch | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=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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