The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 85

But if King Quimus is unwilling to give her to you, I will pour a whirlwind of soldiers upon him, and I will bring to you, in this way, that most consequential of girls.”

Who acts: King Quimus, I · What happens: unwill, give, pour, bring · To what, where: Badakhsham, whirlwind, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Quimus, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 pour	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 unwilling	mark
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Quimus	compound
4	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 unwilling	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 unwilling	aux
6	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 pour	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 unwilling	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 unwilling	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pour	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pour	aux
15	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 whirlwind	det
17	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pour	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 soldiers	case
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 whirlwind	nmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pour	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bring	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bring	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bring	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bring	aux
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pour	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 consequential	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 consequential	mark
35	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 consequential	amod
36	consequential	consequential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bring	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 girls	case
38	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 consequential	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 pour	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 pour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	unwill a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	King Quimus				tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	King Quimus not said here		Badakhsham	to you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient
3	pour	future	I	a whirlwind of soldiers		upon Quimus	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Patient
4	bring	future	I		you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to you=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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