The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 30

By heaven’s grace I may accomplish my purpose, and, if so, I will come back to you.”

Who acts: I, my · What happens: accomplish, come back, purpose · To what, where: purpose, you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 grace	case
2	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grace	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 heaven	case
4	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accomplish	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 accomplish	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 accomplish	aux
7	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 purpose	nmod:poss
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accomplish	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 so	mark
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 come	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 so	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 accomplish	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 accomplish	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 accomplish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accomplish	may	I	my purpose		by heaven's grace	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality
2	come back	future	I		you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
3	purpose		my				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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