More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 4

I should be obliged if the sender would communicate with me.

Who acts: sender · What happens: oblige, communicate · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sender), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 communicate	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sender	det
7	sender	sender	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 communicate	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 communicate	aux
9	communicate	communicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 communicate	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	should · passive		I					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	communicate a condition, not said to happen	would	the sender					with me	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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