The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 43

But if you do as I tell you, I may be able to save us both.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, tell, be, save · To what, where: you, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1067): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 able	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 able	advcl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 able	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 save	mark
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 save	obj
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 us	det
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	may	I			able property	tree rules
4	save	to-infinitive	I not said here	us			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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