The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 2

Nothing is required but to set the right way to work, but of course the really important thing is to succeed.

What happens: require, set, work, be · To what, where: Nothing, right way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 required	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 required	aux:pass
3	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 set	cc
5	to	to	PART	_	6 set	mark
6	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 required	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 work	mark
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 succeed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 succeed	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 thing	case
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 of	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 important	advmod
18	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 succeed	obl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 succeed	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 succeed	mark
22	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 required	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 required	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require	present · passive	Nothing		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
2	set	to-infinitive	the right way		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient way=Result
3	work	to-infinitive	the right way not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present		of the important thing; succeed property	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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