The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 101
These you must carefully peel and eat, and in time your wish will be fulfilled.’
Who acts: These, your · What happens: peel, eat, fulfil, wish · To what, where: wish
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, your), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 peel | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 peel | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 peel | aux |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 peel | advmod |
| 5 | peel | peel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eat | cc |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 peel | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fulfilled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fulfilled | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fulfilled | obl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fulfilled | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 16 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 peel | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 peel | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 peel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peel | must | These | carefully property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | These not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fulfil | future · passive | your wish | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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