The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 82
But on one condition I will spare you, and that is, if you will bring me the flying horse that belongs to the great dragon.
Who acts: I, that, flying horse · What happens: spare, be, fly, belong · To what, where: you, one condition
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, flying horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 spare | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 condition | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 condition | nummod |
| 4 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spare | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 spare | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spare | aux |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 spare | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spare | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 belongs | nsubj |
| 23 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 horse | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 dragon | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dragon | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dragon | amod |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belongs | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | future | I | you | one condition | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Asset | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | belong | present | the flying horse | to the great dragon | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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