The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 107

If she were to know any peace of mind, there was nothing for it but that her husband should climb over the garden wall again, and fetch her some more.

Who acts: wife, nothing, husband · What happens: know, be, climb, fetch, pacify · To what, where: peace, garden wall, more, wife, mind

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, nothing, husband), 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	_	5 know	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 was	advcl
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 peace	det
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mind	case
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peace	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 was	nsubj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nothing	nmod
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 climb	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 climb	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 climb	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 climb	aux
21	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 wall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wall	compound
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 climb	obl
26	again	again	ADV	_	21 climb	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fetch	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fetch	cc
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 climb	conj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fetch	obj
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 more	det
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 fetch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	wife	any peace of mind				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus
2	be	past	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	climb	should	wife's husband			the garden wall	again	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory
4	fetch	infinitive	wife's husband not said here	some more	wife			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent her=Beneficiary more=Theme
5	pacify			mind				nom peace «state transitive»: of=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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