The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 62

If the peri-king allows this favour, we two will manage to be your anointers, and we will put an oil on you such that if you were a thousand years in the fire not a trace of burning would remain.’

Who acts: peri king, we, you, trace · What happens: allow, manage, be, put, burn, remain · To what, where: favour, anointers, oil, thousand years, fire

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 (peri king, we, you, trace), 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 allows	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
3	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 peri	punct
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allows	nsubj
6	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	advcl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 favour	det
8	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allows	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 allows	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 manage	nsubj
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 manage	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	aux
13	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	17 anointers	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 anointers	cop
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 anointers	nmod:poss
17	anointers	anointer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 manage	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 put	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 manage	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 oil	det
24	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	22 put	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 remain	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 years	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 years	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 years	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thousand	det
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 years	nummod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 remain	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 years	nmod
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 trace	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 trace	det
40	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 remain	nsubj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 burning	mark
42	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 trace	acl
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 remain	aux
44	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 such	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 manage	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow a condition, not said to happen	present	the peri king	this favour			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Beneficiary
2	manage	future	we				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	we not said here	your anointers			tree rules
4	put	future	we	a oil		on you	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme on you=Destination
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	you	thousand years	the fire		tree rules
6	burn	gerund	a trace not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	remain	would	a trace				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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