The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 51

If, however, you do as I bid you, she will become herself a bundle of sticks.'

Who acts: I, stepmother · What happens: bid, become · To what, where: you, stepmother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stepmother), 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	_	3 however	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 do	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 bid	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bid	nsubj
9	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 become	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bid	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bid	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 become	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bundle	det
17	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 become	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 sticks	case
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bundle	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	past	I	you					tree rules
2	become	present · do-support	stepmother	stepmother					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient herself=Result

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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