The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 65
‘Now, do be a little sharper than you were before, and you will manage to carry off both the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, manage, carry off · To what, where: Golden Blackbird
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. 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 | _ | 8 sharper | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sharper | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 sharper | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sharper | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sharper | obl |
| 8 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 before | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 before | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 before | cop |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 sharper | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 manage | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 manage | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 manage | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 manage | aux |
| 17 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sharper | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 manage | xcomp |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 carry | compound:prt |
| 21 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 24 Blackbird | cc:preconj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Blackbird | det |
| 23 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Blackbird | amod |
| 24 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Maiden | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Maiden | det |
| 27 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Maiden | compound |
| 28 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Blackbird | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sharper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | now | a little obl; sharp property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | you | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | manage | future | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | carry off | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Golden Blackbird and the Porcelain Maiden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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