The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 20

But the best thing that you can do is to go away again, for if not the Troll will devour you.

Who acts: you, best thing, Troll · What happens: do, be, devour · To what, where: best thing, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, best thing, Troll), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj:outer
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 do	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thing	acl:relcl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 devour	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 devour	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 devour	mark
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 Troll	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Troll	det
19	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 devour	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 devour	aux
21	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 devour	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	you	the best thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	is	present	the best thing		again	away, go property	tree rules
3	devour a condition, not said to happen	future	the Troll	you			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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