The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 67
If any man could find it and bring it to him he would receive her hand as a reward.
Who acts: man, prince · What happens: find, bring, receive · To what, where: sword, prince, hand
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, prince), 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 | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 receive | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 find | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 receive | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 receive | aux |
| 14 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 receive | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 reward | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 reward | det |
| 19 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 receive | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | any man | sword | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | any man not said here | sword | prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | receive | would | prince | princess's hand | as a reward | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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