More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 38

But if the children chanced to die Ere they to age should come, Their uncle should possess their wealth; For so the will did run.

Who acts: children, age, uncle · What happens: chance, die, come, possess, run · To what, where: Ere, wealth

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, age, uncle), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 chanced	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 chanced	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chanced	nsubj
5	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 die	mark
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chanced	xcomp
8	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 die	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 die	obl:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 die	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 possess	punct
15	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 uncle	nmod:poss
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 possess	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 possess	aux
18	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wealth	nmod:poss
20	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 possess	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 run	punct
22	For	for	SCONJ	_	27 run	mark
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 run	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 run	det
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 run	aux
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 run	aux
27	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chanced	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chance	participle	the children			vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	the children not said here	Ere	Children = child obl:unmarked	tree rules
3	come	should	age			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	possess	should	Children's uncle	Children's wealth		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wealth=Theme
5	run	future · do-support	the children not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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