The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 28

“If once you go there you will never gallop through these woods any more.

Who acts: you · What happens: go, not gallop · To what, where: woods

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	10 gallop	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gallop	advcl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 gallop	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 gallop	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 gallop	advmod
10	gallop	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gallop	obl
14	any	any	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 gallop	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gallop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not gallop in a quote	future	you			this woods			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

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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