The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 35

I will go myself with the men of my household to avenge him if he is dead, to free him if he is in prison, to bring him back if he is alive.’

Who acts: I, man · What happens: go, avenge, be, bring back · To what, where: myself, man, prison

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 go	obl:unmarked
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 household	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 household	nmod:poss
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 avenge	mark
12	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 avenge	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 dead	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dead	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 avenge	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 free	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 free	mark
20	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 free	nsubj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 prison	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 prison	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 prison	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 prison	case
26	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 free	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bring	mark
29	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 free	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 alive	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 alive	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 alive	cop
35	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bring	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I	myself			with the men of my household	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary
2	avenge	to-infinitive	I not said here	man				tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	man				dead property	tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	man			prison		tree rules
5	bring back	to-infinitive			man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	man				alive property	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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