The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 83

‘If I knew any cause that I should succour it, I would take thy counsel,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘but as I know of none, I am minded to destroy it.’

Who acts: I, cause · What happens: know, succour, take, answer, mind, destroy · To what, where: cause, counsel, Manawyddan, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cause), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 take	advcl
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cause	det
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 succour	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 succour	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 succour	aux
10	succour	succour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cause	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 succour	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 counsel	nmod:poss
17	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 answered	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 minded	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 minded	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 minded	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 know	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 minded	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 none	case
29	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 know	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 minded	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 minded	aux:pass
33	minded	mind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 answered	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 destroy	mark
35	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 minded	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 destroy	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	I	any cause			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus
2	succour	should	any cause	cause			tree rules
3	take	would	I	thy counsel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past			Manawyddan		tree rules
5	know	present	I			of none	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of none=Stimulus
6	mind	present · passive		I			tree rules
7	destroy	to-infinitive		cause			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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