The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 43
‘If you have love and courage enough to undertake this journey, whenever you come to a cross-road always look at this diamond before you settle which way you are going to take.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, undertake, come, look, settle, go · To what, where: love, journey, diamond, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 undertake | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 undertake | advcl |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 courage | cc |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | conj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 undertake | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 undertake | mark |
| 10 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertake | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 come | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 undertake | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cross-road | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cross-road | det |
| 19 | cross-road | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 look | advmod |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 diamond | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 diamond | det |
| 24 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 settle | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 settle | nsubj |
| 27 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 look | advcl |
| 28 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 settle | obj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 way | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 take | mark |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 going | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | love and courage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | ||||
| 2 | undertake | to-infinitive | this journey | enough property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come | present | you | whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | present | this diamond | to a cross-road; always property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cross-road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | settle | present | you | which way | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme way=Location | ||||
| 6 | go | present · progressive | you | which way not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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