The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 65

‘If you really wish to be of use to me you will come at the time that I will appoint, and I will let down my poor little baby in a basket.

Who acts: you, time, I · What happens: wish, be, come, appoint, let down · To what, where: me, poor little baby, basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 wish	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 wish	advmod
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	cop
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 use	case
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wish	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 use	nmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 appoint	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 appoint	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 appoint	aux
21	appoint	appoint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 time	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 come	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 baby	nmod:poss
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 baby	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 baby	amod
31	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 basket	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 basket	det
34	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			me			of use	tree rules
3	come	future	you				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appoint	future	the time						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	let down	future	I	my poor little baby		a basket			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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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