The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 13
If there is anything you wish for, say so, and you shall have it.’
Who acts: anything, you · What happens: be, wish, say, have · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, you), 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 | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | advcl |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 anything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wish | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 say | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | shall | you | child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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