The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 9

You will have to wait upon her and serve her, but you will be well rewarded, for she will give you the best of everything.’

Who acts: You, witch · What happens: have, wait, serve, reward, give · To what, where: witch, you, best

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, witch), 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	3 have	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wait	mark
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 serve	cc
9	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 serve	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rewarded	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 rewarded	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 rewarded	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 rewarded	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 rewarded	aux:pass
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 rewarded	advmod
17	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 best	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 give	iobj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 everything	case
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 best	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	You				tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	You not said here			upon witch	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
3	serve	infinitive	You not said here	witch			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute
4	reward	future · passive		you		well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	give	future	witch		the best		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient good=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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