The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 58
‘Mannikin, you have done very well so far; continue to please me and you shall always find good friends when you need them most.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, continue, please, find, need · To what, where: Mannikin, me, good friends, Fairies
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mannikin | punct |
| 2 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mannikin | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 done | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 done | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 continue | punct |
| 12 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 please | mark |
| 14 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 continue | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 please | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 continue | conj |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friends | amod |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 need | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 need | nsubj |
| 25 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 need | obj |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 need | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect · passive | Mannikin | far, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | continue | infinitive | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find | shall | you | good friends | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | |||
| 5 | need | present | you | Fairies = fairy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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