More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 119

If it has to be him it must be him."

Who acts: eye · What happens: be · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 has	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 him	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	6 him	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 him	cop
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 him	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 him	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 him	cop
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 him	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 him	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive	eye not said here	boy					tree rules
2	is a	must · present	eye	boy					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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