The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 10

If it holds water I will marry again, but if it doesn’t I won’t.’

Who acts: boot, I · What happens: hold, marry · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (boot, 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	_	3 holds	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 marry	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 marry	aux
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 water	acl:relcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 marry	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wo	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wo	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 does	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 does	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wo	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 does	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wo	nsubj
16	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wo	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	boot	water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	marry	future	I	water not said here			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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