The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 66
But if you would rather stay in business, of course you may do so.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, do · To what, where: business
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stay | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 stay | advmod |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 business | case |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 14 do | advmod |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | fixed |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | would | you | business | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in business=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | may | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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