The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 15

‘You may come here again in a year’s time, and then I will tell you if the lad suits me.’

Who acts: You, I, lad · What happens: come, tell, suit · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, lad), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 year	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 tell	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 suits	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lad	det
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 suits	nsubj
22	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 suits	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	may	You			here	again; time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	suit a condition, not said to happen	present	the lad	me				tree rules

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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