The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 17

And if you are unhappy or in danger, tell the casket and it will set things right.’

Who acts: you, casket · What happens: be, tell, set · To what, where: casket, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, casket), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 unhappy	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 unhappy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	cop
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tell	advcl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 danger	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unhappy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 casket	det
12	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 set	aux
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	conj
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	obj
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 set	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		unhappy property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the casket		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent casket=Recipient
3	set	future	casket	things	right property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thing=Result

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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