The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 24
You must take pains to make it grow, for it is not everyone who has a head of sealing-wax.’
Who acts: You, appearance · What happens: take, make, grow, not be, have · To what, where: pains, appearance, head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, appearance), 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 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 everyone | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 everyone | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 everyone | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 everyone | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 everyone | advmod |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 grow | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wax | case |
| 20 | sealing | sealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wax | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sealing | punct |
| 22 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | You | pains | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | You not said here | appearance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | appearance not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | appearance | for everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | a head of sealing wax | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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