The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 14

“But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just as he did, and you will soon be able to see as far as me.”

Who acts: you, wolverine · What happens: like, go, gather, do, be, see · To what, where: some, berries

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wolverine), 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	_	5 like	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 like	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gather	cc
9	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 gather	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 berries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 berries	det
13	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 some	nmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 berries	acl:relcl
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 able	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 able	aux
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 able	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 far	advmod
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 see	advmod
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 far	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	some		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	do in a quote	future	the wolverine = wolverine	the berries not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Eventuality
5	do in a quote	past	wolverine			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	future	you		able, soon property	tree rules
7	see in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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