The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 103

However, if you really are anxious to go there, and are not afraid to go with me, I will take you on my back, and try if I can blow you there.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, go, not be, take, try, blow · To what, where: you, back

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 anxious	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 anxious	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 anxious	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	cop
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anxious	advcl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 afraid	cc
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 afraid	advmod
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anxious	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 try	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 try	cc
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 blow	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 blow	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 blow	aux
34	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 try	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 blow	obj
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 blow	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 anxious	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			anxious, however property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	you not said here		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	present	you not said here			afraid property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	you not said here			with me	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
5	take	future	I	you	my back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme on back=Destination
6	try	infinitive	I not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	blow a condition, not said to happen	can	I	you	there		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=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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