The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 20

If this is your only wish, so be it; I will tell you.

Who acts: this, I · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: only wish, wish, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 wish	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 wish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wish	nmod:poss
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	amod
6	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 it	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 it	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	this	your only wish		tree rules
2	is a	infinitive		wish		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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