The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 26
As for you, you had better give your minds to governing your kingdom properly.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: have, give, govern, mind · To what, where: minds, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 you | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 had | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 minds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 governing | mark |
| 12 | governing | govern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 give | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 governing | obj |
| 15 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 12 governing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | you | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | your minds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | govern | gerund | you not said here | your kingdom | properly property | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | |||
| 4 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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