The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 55

If thou art an old man, thou shalt be my father; if a middle-aged man, my brother; but if a young man, thou shalt be my husband dear.

Who acts: thou · What happens: be · To what, where: father, husband

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 art	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 art	nsubj
3	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 father	advcl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 art	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 art	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 father	nsubj
9	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	12 father	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 father	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 man	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
16	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 aged	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 middle	punct
18	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brother	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 husband	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 husband	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 man	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 husband	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 husband	nsubj
31	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	34 husband	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 husband	cop
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 husband	nmod:poss
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
35	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 husband	amod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	thou	my father but my husband					tree rules
2	is a	shall	thou	my husband					tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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