The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 8

‘What must come will come, whatever it is.’

Who acts: back · What happens: come, be · To what, where: whatever

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 (back), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 come	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whatever	punct
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Int	4 come	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 whatever	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 whatever	cop
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
12	’	'	SYM	_	4 come	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	must			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	future			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	back	whatever	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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