The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 20
‘Bark, and run upon four feet, until the time comes when virtue shall be rewarded by love and fortune.’
Who acts: Bark, time, love · What happens: run, come, reward · To what, where: four feet, virtue
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bark, time, love), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bark | punct |
| 2 | Bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 run | cc |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bark | acl:relcl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comes | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 comes | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | advcl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 rewarded | advmod |
| 15 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rewarded | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 18 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 comes | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rewarded | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fortune | cc |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 love | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bark | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Bark not said here | four feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reward | shall · passive | love and fortune | virtue | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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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