The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 109

If it falls into the water I pick it up out of the greatest depths, and if it is in a dark forest I can find it even at midnight.”

Who acts: dog, I · What happens: fall, pick up, be, find · To what, where: water, dog, greatest depths, dark forest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, I), 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 falls	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pick	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 pick	nsubj
8	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pick	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 pick	compound:prt
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 depths	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 depths	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 depths	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 depths	amod
15	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 find	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 forest	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forest	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 forest	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 forest	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 forest	amod
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	advcl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pick	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	obj
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 midnight	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 midnight	case
31	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pick	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	dog				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
2	pick up	present	I	dog	the greatest depths			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	dog		a dark forest			tree rules
4	find	can	I	dog		midnight		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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