The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 78

‘If that child is to have a better horse than mine, I will go back to my own castle this very minute.

Who acts: child, I · What happens: be, go back

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 (child, 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	_	7 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 mine	case
12	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horse	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 castle	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 castle	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 castle	amod
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 minute	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 minute	advmod
24	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 castle	nmod:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	that child					have property	tree rules
2	go back	future	I					to my own castle this minute result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result

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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