The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 52
‘You can do a good turn for me if you will;’ he answered.
Who acts: You, Enchanter · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: good turn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Enchanter), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 turn | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turn | amod |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 will | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 will | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | You | a good turn | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Enchanter | 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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