The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 34
You must be needing something to strengthen you after that turn.’
Who acts: You · What happens: need, strengthen · To what, where: something, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 needing | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 needing | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needing | aux |
| 4 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 needing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 strengthen | mark |
| 7 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 strengthen | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 turn | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 turn | det |
| 11 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strengthen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 needing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | must · progressive | You | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strengthen | to-infinitive | You not said here | you | after that turn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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