The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 70

And this let me tell you: that if I never find a child I shall not come home again.”

Who acts: this, me, I · What happens: let, tell, not find, not come · To what, where: me, you, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, me, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 find	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 find	advmod
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	this	me				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	present	I	a child				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
4	not come	shall	I			again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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