More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 84

"But if it be I, as I do hope it be, I've a little dog at home, and he'll know me; If it be I, he'll wag his little tail, And if it be not I, he'll loudly bark and wail."

Who acts: name, woman, dog · What happens: be, hope, have, know, wag, not be · To what, where: woman, name, little dog, home, little tail

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, woman, dog), 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	_	11 hope	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 hope	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 I	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 I	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 I	cop
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hope	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hope	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 hope	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hope	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hope	aux
11	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hope	obj
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hope	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 've	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 've	nsubj
16	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hope	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dog	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dog	amod
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 've	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 home	case
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 've	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 've	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 wag	punct
29	If	if	SCONJ	_	36 wag	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 I	nsubj
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 I	cop
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 wag	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 I	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wag	nsubj
35	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 wag	aux
36	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hope	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tail	nmod:poss
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tail	amod
39	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wag	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bark	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	51 bark	cc
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 I	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 I	nsubj
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 I	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 I	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 bark	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 I	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 bark	nsubj
49	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 bark	aux
50	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	51 bark	advmod
51	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hope	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 wail	cc
53	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 bark	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hope	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	name	woman			tree rules
2	hope in a quote	present · do-support	woman	name			tree rules
3	be not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	woman	a little dog	home		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
5	know in a quote	future	dog	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	is a in a quote	infinitive	name	woman			tree rules
7	wag a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	woman	dog's little tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
8	not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	name	woman			tree rules
9	bark in a quote	future	woman			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	wail in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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