The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 116

If he take the left, he will have some trouble, but he will reach his goal without much delay.

Who acts: man · What happens: take, have, reach · To what, where: left, trouble, goal

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 take	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 left	det
5	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 trouble	det
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reach	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 reach	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reach	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 reach	aux
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 goal	nmod:poss
18	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obj
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 delay	case
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 delay	amod
21	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reach	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present	man	the left		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent left=Theme
2	have	future	man	some trouble		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
3	reach	future	man	man's goal	without much delay	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent goal=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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