The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 116
If you open it, it will tell you anything you want, and give you news of your fatherland.’
Who acts: you, box · What happens: open, tell, want, give · To what, where: box, anything, you, news · Speech: someone speaks here
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, box), 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 | _ | 3 open | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 open | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 anything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fatherland | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fatherland | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fatherland | fatherland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 news | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open a condition, not said to happen | present | you | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | box | anything | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Topic | |||
| 3 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | box not said here | news of your fatherland | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=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 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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