The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 30
If we have a book for you next year, it shall not be a fairy book.
Who acts: we, Book · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: book, fairy book
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Book), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 book | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 book | nmod |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 book | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 book | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 book | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 book | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 book | amod |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | we | a book | year | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | ||
| 2 | not is a | shall | Book | a fairy book | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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