The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 30

But if the weather were stormy we might say twelve.

Who acts: weather, we · What happens: be, say · To what, where: twelve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 stormy	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 stormy	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weather	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stormy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stormy	cop
6	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stormy	parataxis
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 say	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stormy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weather					stormy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	might	we	twelve					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent twelve=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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