The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 9
But if you will not take my advice, then truly I can show you the secrets of the night.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not take, show · To what, where: advice, secrets, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 show | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 show | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 truly | advmod |
| 11 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 14 show | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 secrets | det |
| 17 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 secrets | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | can | I | the secrets of the night | you | truly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient secret=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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