The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 42
‘You’ll find out soon enough, but in the meantime do as I bid you.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: find out, do, bid · To what, where: meantime, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 find | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 meantime | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meantime | det |
| 12 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 bid | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bid | nsubj |
| 16 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bid | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | future | You | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | You not said here | the meantime | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bid | past | I | you | 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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