The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 146

If one is young one never grows old, and if one is old one becomes young.

Who acts: one young one, one, old one · What happens: be, not grow, become · To what, where: one young one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one young one, one, old one), 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	_	7 grows	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 one	nummod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 grows	advmod
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grows	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 becomes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 becomes	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 old	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 old	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	nsubj
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grows	conj
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 becomes	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		one young one		tree rules
2	not grow	present	one young one		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	one		old property	tree rules
4	become	present	old one		young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 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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