The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 33

You’d better go and see if it was he; I should be much distressed if it were.”

Who acts: You, rogue · What happens: go, see, be, distress · To what, where: husband, I

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, rogue), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	’d	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 he	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 he	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 he	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 distressed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 distressed	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 distressed	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 distressed	aux:pass
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 distressed	advmod
16	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 go	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 were	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 were	nsubj
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 distressed	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	would	You		well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	You not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	rogue	husband		tree rules
4	distress	should · passive		I		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	be a condition, not said to happen	past	rogue			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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