The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 43
I had better take my turn, and if I manage to win the princess there will be her fortune as well as my own for us to live on.’
Who acts: I, princess, us · What happens: have, take, manage, win, be, live on · To what, where: turn, fortune
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princess, us), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | xcomp |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 manage | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 manage | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 manage | nsubj |
| 11 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 win | mark |
| 13 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 manage | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fortune | nsubj |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 be | expl |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fortune | cop |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 win | ccomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 own | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | conj |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 live | mark |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 live | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 live | mark |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 own | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 live | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | I not said here | my turn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | manage a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | the princess | princess's fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | the princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | live on | to-infinitive | us | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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