The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 38
‘To the castle of the White Demon; and if you are in want of work I will find you something to do.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, find, do · To what, where: want, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 castle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Demon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Demon | det |
| 7 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Demon | amod |
| 8 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 castle | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 want | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 want | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 want | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 want | case |
| 15 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 castle | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 want | nmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 something | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | want | of work | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | future | I | you | to the castle of the White Demon and want | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme something=Attribute | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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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