The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 191
‘Be of good heart, dear master,’ replied Waska; ‘from this day forth you will know nothing but happiness and prosperity.
Who acts: good heart, you · What happens: be, reply, know · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good heart, 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 | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heart | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | obl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 day | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 know | obj |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 happiness | cc |
| 24 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 prosperity | cc |
| 26 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | of good heart and dear master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | good heart and dear master | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | future | you | nothing | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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