The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 46
If a single word comes out of your mouth, all your labour is vain.’
Who acts: single word, labour · What happens: come out, be · To what, where: mouth
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single word, labour), 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 | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vain | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 labour | det:predet |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 labour | nmod:poss |
| 13 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vain | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vain | cop |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 vain | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out a condition, not said to happen | present | a single word | your mouth | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your labour | vain property | tree rules |
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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