The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 75
Once there, you will easily be able to make him understand the truth.’
Who acts: you, Breton · What happens: be, make, understand · To what, where: Breton, truth
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, Breton), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 able | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 understand | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | there | able, easily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | Breton | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | Breton not said here | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus |
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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