The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 51
‘Martin, if you would win happiness, save my life.
Who acts: you · What happens: win, save · To what, where: happiness, life
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 (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 | _ | 2 Martin | punct |
| 2 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 win | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 win | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 win | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 win | aux |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Martin | parataxis |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 win | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Martin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | would | you | happiness | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | you not said here | my life | 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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