The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 8
‘Yes,’ observed the fish, ‘but there is one condition attached to my offer, and that is that you are not to reveal to a soul where your good fortune comes from.
Who acts: one condition, that, good fortune, my · What happens: observe, be, attach, not be, come, offer · To what, where: fish, one condition
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one condition, that, good fortune, my), 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 | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 observed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 is | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 observed | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 condition | nummod |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 15 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 condition | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 offer | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 offer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attached | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reveal | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reveal | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 reveal | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 reveal | cop |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 reveal | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 reveal | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 reveal | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 reveal | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 reveal | mark |
| 28 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 condition | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 soul | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 soul | det |
| 31 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reveal | obl |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 comes | advmod |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fortune | amod |
| 35 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 comes | nsubj |
| 36 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 soul | acl:relcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 comes | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | the fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | one condition | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | attach | participle | one condition not said here | to my offer | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to offer=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | that | to a soul; reveal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | present | your good fortune | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | offer | my | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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