The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 3

You will find several of them will tell you they had not been alive this day if they had not made use of this excellent remedy.

Who acts: You, several, merchants · What happens: find, tell, not be, not make, use · To what, where: you, use, excellent remedy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, several, merchants), 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	3 find	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 several	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alive	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 alive	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 alive	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 alive	cop
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	ccomp
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alive	obl:unmarked
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 made	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 made	advmod
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	ccomp
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 remedy	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 remedy	det
25	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 remedy	amod
26	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	You					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	several of merchants		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not is	past · perfect	merchants = merchant			day	alive property	tree rules
4	not make a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	merchants = merchant	use of this excellent remedy				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	use			this excellent remedy				nom use «act transitive»: of=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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