The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 86

If you are ill you are better at home.'

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: home

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	4 ill	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 better	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 better	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 better	cop
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					ill property	tree rules
2	is	present	you			home		good property	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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