The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 21

If thou canst find her each time that she hides herself, and if she cannot find thee in thy hiding-places, then it is fated, and thou shalt have the Princess.’

Who acts: thou, horse, difference · What happens: find, hide, not find, be, have · To what, where: horse, thee, hiding places, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, horse, difference), 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	_	4 find	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 find	nsubj
3	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hides	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hides	nsubj
10	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	advcl
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hides	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hides	conj
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 find	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 places	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 places	nmod:poss
22	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 places	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hiding	punct
24	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 find	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fated	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fated	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fated	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fated	cop
29	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 find	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 have	cc
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 have	nsubj
33	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen	can	thou	horse		time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	hide	present	horse	horse				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	can	horse	thee	thy hiding places			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic
4	is	present	difference			then	fated property	tree rules
5	have	shall	thou	the Princess				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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