The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 32
So good-bye, and when you have read a fairy book, lend it to other children who have none, or tell them the stories in your own way, which is a very pleasant mode of passing the time.
Who acts: you, other children, own way, pleasant mode · What happens: read, lend, have, tell, be, pass · To what, where: fairy book, Book, other children, none, stories, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, other children, own way, pleasant mode), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lend | advcl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 good | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lend | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lend | cc |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 read | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 read | aux |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lend | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 book | compound |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
| 15 | lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lend | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lend | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 children | acl:relcl |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 lend | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stories | det |
| 28 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tell | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 way | amod |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mode | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 mode | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 mode | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 mode | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 pleasant | advmod |
| 38 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 mode | amod |
| 39 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 way | appos |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 passing | mark |
| 41 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 mode | acl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 passing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · perfect | you | a fairy book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lend | imperative | you not said here | Book | other children | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | present | other children | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the stories | children = child | your own way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 5 | is a | present | your own way | a pleasant mode | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pass | gerund | a pleasant mode not said here | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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