The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 69

If you will indeed be my friend, I shall not be afraid of that wicked old Duchess any more.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: friend

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. 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), 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	_	7 friend	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 friend	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 friend	aux
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 friend	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friend	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 afraid	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 Duchess	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 Duchess	nsubj
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Duchess	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Duchess	amod
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	obl
19	any	any	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 afraid	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	future	you	my friend				indeed property	tree rules
2	not is	shall	I					of wicked old Duchess; afraid property	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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