More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 4

And if everything round about you turns blue, I have beaten the Old One; but should all things turn red, he'll have conquered me."

Who acts: everything, I, things, Bull · What happens: turn, beat, conquer · To what, where: Old One, me

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (everything, I, things, Bull), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 beaten	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 turns	mark
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 turns	nsubj
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 everything	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 everything	nmod
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	advcl
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turns	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 beaten	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	aux
12	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 conquered	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 One	det
14	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 One	amod
15	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beaten	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turn	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 turn	cc
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	aux
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 turn	advmod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	nsubj
21	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 beaten	conj
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turn	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beaten	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 conquered	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 conquered	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 conquered	aux
27	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 conquered	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 conquered	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 conquered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn a condition, not said to happen	present	everything		blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	beat	present · perfect	I	the Old One		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	turn	should	things		all, red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	conquer	future · perfect	Bull	me		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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