The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 111
Fight according to rules, if you really are a hero!’
Who acts: you · What happens: fight, accord, be · To what, where: hero
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rules | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 according | fixed |
| 4 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fight | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hero | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 hero | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hero | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 hero | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hero | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fight | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fight | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | imperative | you not said here | accord rules | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a hero | 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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