The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 109

If you were to tell them that those sheep belonged to an ogre, they would kill them, and then the ogre would kill you!

Who acts: you, sheep, ogre · What happens: tell, belong, kill · To what, where: courtiers, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sheep, ogre), 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	_	5 tell	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kill	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 belonged	mark
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 belonged	nsubj
10	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ogre	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ogre	det
13	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 belonged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 kill	aux
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kill	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kill	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kill	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 kill	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ogre	det
23	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kill	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 kill	aux
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kill	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 kill	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you		courtiers = courtier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	belong	past	that sheep				to a ogre	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	kill	would	sheep	courtiers = courtier				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	kill	would	the ogre	you		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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