The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 69

It isn’t much to look at, but if you blow it, anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you will find its way back to you in a moment.’

Who acts: whistle, you · What happens: not be, look, blow, lose, take, find · To what, where: whistle, that, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whistle, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 much	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	6 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 find	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 blow	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 blow	nsubj
12	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 find	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blow	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 anything	punct
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 blow	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lost	nsubj:pass
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 lost	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lost	aux
19	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 anything	acl:relcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 taken	cc
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taken	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 taken	aux:pass
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lost	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	24 taken	obl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	parataxis
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 back	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 moment	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	whistle			much property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	blow a condition, not said to happen	present	you	whistle			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary anything=Product
4	lose	present · perfect · passive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	take	present · perfect · passive		that			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	find	future	you	whistle's way	moment		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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