The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 94

If you like, however, I will go with you to my brother, the North Wind; he is the oldest and strongest of all of us, and if he does not know where it is no one in the whole world will be able to tell you.

Who acts: you, I, Wind, deal, one · What happens: like, go, be, not know, tell · To what, where: one, whole world, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Wind, deal), 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	_	3 like	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 like	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 brother	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Wind	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Wind	det
17	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Wind	compound
18	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 brother	appos
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 strongest	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 strongest	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 strongest	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 strongest	det
23	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 strongest	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strongest	cc
25	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 go	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 strongest	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 us	case
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 all	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 know	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 know	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 strongest	parataxis
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 able	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 one	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 one	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 able	nsubj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
44	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 world	amod
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 one	nmod
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 able	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 able	cop
48	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 know	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 tell	mark
50	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 able	xcomp
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 tell	iobj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you				however property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	go	future	I				with you; to my brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location
3	is	present	Wind				of all; strong property	tree rules
4	not know a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Wind					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	deal	no one		the whole world		tree rules
6	is	future	no one				able property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no one not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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