The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 22

They may be anywhere in heaven or earth; but, wherever they are, you will have to find them.’

Who acts: mares, you · What happens: be, have, find · To what, where: heaven, mares

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (mares, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 anywhere	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 anywhere	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 anywhere	cop
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 heaven	case
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anywhere	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 earth	cc
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heaven	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 but	punct
12	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	14 are	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 are	nsubj
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anywhere	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	may	mares = mare		heaven or earth	anywhere property	tree rules
2	does	present	mares = mare			wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	future	you				tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	mares = mare			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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