The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 44
If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre is dimmed choose another path.’
Who acts: way · What happens: sparkle, go, dim, choose · To what, where: lustre, path
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 (way), 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 | _ | 3 sparkles | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sparkles | nsubj |
| 3 | sparkles | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 brightly | advmod |
| 5 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 3 sparkles | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dimmed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 dimmed | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dimmed | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dimmed | aux:pass |
| 17 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 go | conj |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dimmed | xcomp |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choose | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sparkle a condition, not said to happen | present | way | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | imperative | ever | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dim a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | way's lustre | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | choose | infinitive | another path | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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