The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 97
You wish to have a son; you shall have two if you follow my instructions.’
Who acts: You, my · What happens: wish, have, follow, instruct · To what, where: son, two, instructions
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 (You, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | parataxis |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follow | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | two | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my instructions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | instruct | my | nom instruction «communication transitive»: 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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