The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 14

If I give birth to a little son I will wave a white flag, and then you may safely return; but if I give birth to a little daughter I will wave a red flag, which will warn you to fly away as quickly as you can, and may the kind Heaven have pity on you.

Who acts: I, you, kind Heaven · What happens: give, wave, return, warn, fly away, have · To what, where: birth, little son, white flag, little daughter, red flag, you

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 (I, you, kind Heaven), 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 give	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	advcl
4	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 son	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 son	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wave	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	aux
11	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 flag	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flag	amod
14	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 return	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 return	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 return	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 return	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 return	aux
20	safely	safely	ADV	_	21 return	advmod
21	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wave	parataxis
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 wave	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 wave	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 give	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
26	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 wave	advcl
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 daughter	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 daughter	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 daughter	amod
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wave	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wave	aux
34	wave	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wave	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 flag	det
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flag	amod
37	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wave	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 warn	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 warn	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 warn	aux
41	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wave	conj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 warn	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 fly	mark
44	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 warn	xcomp
45	away	away	ADV	_	44 fly	advmod
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 quickly	advmod
47	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	44 fly	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 can	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 can	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 quickly	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 have	cc
53	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 have	aux
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Heaven	det
55	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Heaven	amod
56	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 have	nsubj
57	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	conj
58	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 have	obj
59	on	on	ADP	_	60 you	case
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 have	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 wave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	present	I	birth	a little son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient
2	wave	future	I	a white flag				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
3	return	may	you			then	safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give a condition, not said to happen	present	I	birth	a little daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to daughter=Recipient
5	wave	future	I	a red flag				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
6	warn speech: warn	future			you			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	fly away	to-infinitive					away, quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	may	the kind Heaven	pity			on you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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