The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 73

If neither of them is willing, you must come alone, after bidding them good-by for ever, for then you will belong to me.

Who acts: neither, you · What happens: be, come, bid, belong · To what, where: daughters, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither, you), 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	_	6 willing	mark
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 willing	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 neither	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	cop
6	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bidding	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 bidding	mark
14	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 come	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bidding	obj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bidding	xcomp
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 ever	case
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 bidding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 belong	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 belong	mark
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 belong	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 belong	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 belong	aux
26	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 belong	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	neither				willing property	tree rules
2	come	must	you				alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bid	gerund	you not said here	daughters = daughter			good property	tree rules
4	belong	future	you		me	then		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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