More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 40

"You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one; God knows what will become of them When I am dead and gone."

Who acts: You, God, brother · What happens: be, know, become · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, God, brother), 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 father	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 father	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 father	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 father	cop
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
8	both	both	ADV	_	5 father	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 uncle	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 uncle	cc
11	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 father	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct
17	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 become	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knows	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 become	obl
24	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 dead	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 dead	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 become	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gone	cc
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dead	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	You	father and mother and uncle	both property	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	God			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become in a quote	future			of Children = child	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	brother		dead property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		brother not said here			tree rules

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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