The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 66

I will lock something into this box before me, and if he guesses what it is, the horse is his, and if he doesn’t then it is yours.’

Who acts: I, king, money, horse · What happens: lock, guess, be · To what, where: something, box, king, yours

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, money, horse), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lock	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	aux
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 lock	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 box	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lock	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guesses	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 guesses	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 guesses	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guesses	nsubj
14	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	parataxis
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 guesses	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 his	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 his	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 his	cop
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 what	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 yours	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 yours	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 does	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 does	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 yours	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 does	advmod
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 does	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 yours	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 yours	cop
32	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 guesses	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lock	future	I	something	this box	before me	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	guess a condition, not said to happen	present	king				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	money				tree rules
4	is a	present	the horse	king			tree rules
5	is a	present · do-support	money	yours			tree rules

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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