The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 25

'If your daughter is wet already, it is all the more reason that she should go and get the axe.

Who acts: daughter, it, mother · What happens: be, go, get · To what, where: more reason, axe

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, it, mother), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 wet	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	cop
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reason	csubj
7	already	already	ADV	_	6 wet	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reason	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 reason	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 reason	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reason	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 reason	amod
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reason	acl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 axe	det
22	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	your daughter		wet property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	all more reason		tree rules
3	go	should	mother	all more reason not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reason=Theme
4	get	infinitive	mother not said here	the axe		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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