The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 23

If you would rather have silver, you must go into the next room, where there is a dog with eyes as large as mill-wheels.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, go, be · To what, where: silver, next room

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 have	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 large	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 is	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 large	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 is	nsubj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dog	nmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 large	advmod
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 go	advcl
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 wheels	case
26	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wheels	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 mill	punct
28	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 large	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	would	you	silver			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient
2	go	must	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	you not said here		the next room	as mill wheels; large 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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