The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 119

'It shall be as you wish,' said the parents; 'but if by-and-by trouble should come of it, it will be your fault and not ours.'

Who acts: It, illness · What happens: be, say, come · To what, where: parents, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, illness), 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	_	7 wish	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wish	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wish	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wish	cop
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 wish	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wish	nsubj
7	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wish	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parents	det
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 fault	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 fault	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 fault	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
17	by	by	ADP	_	22 trouble	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 by	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trouble	cc
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 trouble	case
22	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fault	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fault	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fault	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 fault	cop
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fault	nmod:poss
32	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wish	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ours	cc
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 ours	advmod
35	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fault	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	shall	It		wish property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the parents		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parent=Topic
3	come a condition, not said to happen	should	illness not said here		by trouble; of illness	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
4	is a	future	illness	your fault		tree rules

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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