The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 75

Of course, if you are always taking in other people, your turn to be taken in comes too, and this time you’ve been made to look pretty foolish.’

Who acts: you, taking, time · What happens: take, take in, come, make, look · To what, where: time

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, taking, time), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	8 taking	mark
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Of	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 taking	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 taking	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 taking	advmod
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 comes	csubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 turn	nmod:poss
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 taken	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 turn	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 taken	obl
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 comes	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj:pass
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj:pass
26	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 comes	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
31	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	32 foolish	advmod
32	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 look	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	you		in other people; always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in people=Location
2	take in	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
3	come	present	taking			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present · perfect · passive		this time		tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	this time not said here		foolish property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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