The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 92

If you can dig a pit in the dry sand which will remain full of water, my spell will be broken.

Who acts: you, dry sand, my · What happens: dig, remain, break, spell · To what, where: pit, dry sand, spell

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dry sand, my), 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	_	4 dig	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dig	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	aux
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pit	det
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sand	det
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sand	amod
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 remain	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remain	aux
13	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sand	acl:relcl
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 remain	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 broken	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 spell	nmod:poss
19	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broken	nsubj:pass
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 broken	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 broken	aux:pass
22	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dig	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig	can	you	a pit	the dry sand		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pit=Theme in sand=Location
2	remain	future	the dry sand			full property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	future · passive		my spell			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	spell		my				nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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