The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 115
Take it, and treasure it, for some day it may help you.
Who acts: you, day · What happens: take, treasure, help · To what, where: box, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, day), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treasure | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 treasure | cc |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treasure | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treasure | infinitive | you not said here | box | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | help | may | some day | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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