The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 56

And if thou art a woman, and an old one, thou shalt be my grandmother; if middle-aged, my mother; and if a girl, thou shalt be my own sister.’

Who acts: thou, girl · What happens: be · To what, where: grandmother, own sister

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, girl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 grandmother	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 art	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 art	nsubj
4	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grandmother	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 art	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 art	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 art	punct
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 grandmother	nsubj
14	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	17 grandmother	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 grandmother	cop
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandmother	nmod:poss
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 aged	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 aged	mark
20	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 aged	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 middle	punct
22	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grandmother	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 aged	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sister	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sister	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 sister	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 girl	det
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sister	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 girl	punct
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 sister	nsubj
33	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	37 sister	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 sister	cop
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sister	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sister	amod
37	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grandmother	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 sister	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	thou	my grandmother					tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	shall	a girl	my own sister					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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