The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 81
If your majesty goes out there alone, fasting, before sunrise, and takes the middle one of the three buds, and eats it, then in six months you will bring a princess into the world.
Who acts: majesty, you · What happens: go out, fast, take, eat, bring · To what, where: middle one, bush, princess, world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 goes | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 goes | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fasting | punct |
| 9 | fasting | fast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 goes | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sunrise | punct |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 sunrise | case |
| 12 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fasting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 takes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 takes | cc |
| 15 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 buds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 buds | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 buds | nummod |
| 22 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eats | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eats | cc |
| 25 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 takes | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eats | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bring | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 bring | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 months | case |
| 30 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 months | nummod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bring | obl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 bring | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 bring | aux |
| 34 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 eats | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 princess | det |
| 36 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 world | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 world | det |
| 39 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | your majesty | there | alone, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fast | gerund | your majesty not said here | sunrise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | present | the middle one of the three buds | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | bush | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bring | future | you | a princess | the world | then; month | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into world=Destination |
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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