The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 86
Try if she will accept your services.’
Who acts: you, Maiden, your · What happens: try, accept, service · To what, where: services
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, Maiden, 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 | Try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 accept | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accept | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 accept | aux |
| 5 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Try | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 services | nmod:poss |
| 7 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 accept | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Try | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | accept a condition, not said to happen | future | Maiden | your services | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 3 | service | your | nom service «act 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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