The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 22

It has all sorts of wonderful properties, you only need to rub it to get whatever you like.’

Who acts: danger, you · What happens: have, need, rub, get, like, sort · To what, where: sorts, danger, whatever, wonderful properties

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sorts	det
4	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 properties	case
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 properties	amod
7	properties	property	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sorts	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 need	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 need	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 need	advmod
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rub	mark
13	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rub	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rub	advcl
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 like	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 get	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	danger	all sorts of wonderful properties	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
2	need	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rub not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	danger	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	like	present	you	whatever	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
6	sort			wonderful properties	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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