The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 21
If you can only make her laugh your fortune is made; then I beg you won’t forget your old friend.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, laugh, beg, not forget · To what, where: Princess, fortune, old friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laugh | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 laugh | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 beg | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 beg | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 beg | nsubj |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 forget | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 forget | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 forget | advmod |
| 19 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beg | ccomp |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forget | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | can | you | Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | ||||
| 2 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | I | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not forget | future | you | your old friend | tree rules |
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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