The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 63
If you wear them you will get to my brother, who lives hundreds of miles from here.
Who acts: you, brother · What happens: wear, get, live · To what, where: shoes, hundreds
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brother), 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 wear | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wear | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lives | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lives | nsubj |
| 13 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 here | case |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lives | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear a condition, not said to happen | present | you | shoes = shoe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | ||||
| 2 | get | future | you | to my brother result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to brother=Result | ||||
| 3 | live | present | my brother | hundreds of miles | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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