The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 49

And now, ladies, I have only to say that, if ever I can do anything to help you, go to the top of that high mountain and knock three times at the iron door at the north side, and I will come to you.”

Who acts: I · What happens: have, say, do, help, go, knock · To what, where: that, anything, you, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ladies	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ladies	punct
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ladies	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 ever	mark
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 do	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 do	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 do	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 say	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 top	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 top	det
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 mountain	det
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mountain	amod
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 top	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knock	cc
32	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 go	conj
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 times	nummod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 knock	obl:unmarked
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 door	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
37	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 door	compound
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knock	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	42 side	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 side	det
41	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 side	amod
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knock	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 come	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 come	cc
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 come	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 come	aux
47	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	ccomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 you	case
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 come	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	that					tree rules
3	do	can	I	anything			ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	help	to-infinitive	I not said here		you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5	go	infinitive				the top of that high mountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
6	knock	infinitive					time	at the north side; at the iron door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
7	come	future	I		you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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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