The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 71

‘If that be the case I will give you a piece of advice,’ said the man.

Who acts: that, I, man · What happens: be, give, say · To what, where: case, piece, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, I, man), 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	_	9 give	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 case	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 case	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 case	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	advcl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 advice	case
14	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	that	the case		tree rules
2	give	future	I	a piece of advice	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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