The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 54

‘You had better take breath now you can, for the fight will have to begin all over again,’ said the horse.

Who acts: You, fight · What happens: have, begin, say · To what, where: take breath, horse · 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, fight), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 take	amod
5	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breath	compound
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fight	det
13	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 over	advmod
19	over	over	ADV	_	17 begin	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 begin	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	You	take breath	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
2	have	future	the fight				tree rules
3	begin	to-infinitive	the fight not said here		again	over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past		the horse			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 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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