The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 38

He will be able to tell you about it, if anyone can.'

Who acts: falcon · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (falcon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 able	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 can	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 can	mark
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 can	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	falcon					able property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	falcon not said here		you			about fish	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about 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 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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