The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 82

If an answer was not ready in three days, war would be declared at once.

Who acts: answer · What happens: not be, declare · To what, where: war

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer), 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	_	6 ready	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 war	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ready	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 declared	obl
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 declared	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 declared	aux:pass
14	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 declared	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	a answer				day	ready property	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	would · passive		war					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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