The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 39
‘Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong.’
Who acts: Heaven, thou · What happens: work, help, not brew · To what, where: thee, ale
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Heaven, thou), 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 Fall | punct |
| 2 | Fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Fall | acl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 minute | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 minute | advmod |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 10 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nsubj |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Fall | conj |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 brew | mark |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 brew | nsubj |
| 15 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brew | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 brew | advmod |
| 17 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ale | det |
| 19 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brew | obj |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brew | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fall | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | minute | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Heaven | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not brew a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | the ale | strong property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/39/