The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 72
This is what you must do if you wish to save your lives.
Who acts: This, you · What happens: be, do, wish, save · To what, where: lives
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 save | mark |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 save | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | your lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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