The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 21

But if you will give me those three reindeer, you shall take it as it is, with all its contents.”

Who acts: you, reindeer · What happens: give, take, be · To what, where: three reindeer, me, reindeer

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reindeer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 reindeer	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 reindeer	nummod
9	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 is	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 is	nsubj
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 take	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 contents	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 contents	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 contents	det:predet
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 contents	nmod:poss
22	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 take	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you	that three reindeer	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reindeer=Theme
2	take	shall	you	reindeer		with reindeer's contents	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	be	present	reindeer				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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