The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 139
If you want the ring you will have to take the finger too!’
Who acts: you · What happens: want, have, take · To what, where: ring, finger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. 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 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 finger | det |
| 12 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the ring | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | you not said here | the finger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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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