The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 114

‘If it’s as you say, you may take as much rampion away with you as you like, but on one condition only—that you give me the child your wife will shortly bring into the world.

Who acts: anger, you, wife · What happens: be, take, like, give, bring · To what, where: much rampion, child, world

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 (anger, you, wife), 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	_	11 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	cop
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 condition	csubj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rampion	amod
14	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 like	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
20	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 take	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 condition	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 condition	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 condition	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 condition	nummod
25	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	only	only	ADV	_	25 condition	advmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 give	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
30	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 condition	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 child	det
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	iobj
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bring	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bring	aux
37	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	38 bring	advmod
38	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 give	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bring	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	anger				say property	tree rules
2	take	may	you	much rampion			with you; away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rampion=Theme
3	like	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	give	present	you		the child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
5	bring	future	your wife			the world	shortly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination

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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