The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 26
You have been gently reared, but you’ll find my work hard enough.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: rear, find, work · To what, where: You, work
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 reared | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reared | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reared | aux:pass |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 reared | advmod |
| 5 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 find | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reared | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 find | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | present · perfect · passive | You | gently property | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | my work | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | |||
| 3 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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