The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 62

Is he then become a prophet, or a magician, that he should know things which have not yet come to pass?”

Who acts: youth, things · What happens: be, know, not come, pass · To what, where: prophet, things

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, things), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prophet	det
6	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 magician	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 magician	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 magician	det
10	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	parataxis
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 know	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 things	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	youth	a prophet	then	become property	tree rules
2	know	should	youth	things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	not come	present	things		yet		tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	things not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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