The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 107

If John can catch me by the hand or cloak when I ride by, and has courage not to let go his grip, I’ll be safe.

Who acts: John, I, courage · What happens: catch, ride by, have, not let, go, be · To what, where: me, courage, grip

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, I, courage), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 catch	mark
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 safe	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cloak	cc
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	conj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 ride	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ride	nsubj
13	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 ride	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 has	cc
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	conj
18	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 let	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 has	xcomp
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grip	nmod:poss
24	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 safe	nsubj
27	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 safe	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 safe	cop
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch a condition, not said to happen	can	John	me	by the hand or cloak	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	ride by	present	I			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	John not said here	courage		tree rules
4	not let	to-infinitive	courage not said here			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	courage not said here	John's grip		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grip=Theme
6	is	future	I		safe property	tree rules
7	grip		John			nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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