The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 125

You know if he is lying to us we can always catch him again.

Who acts: You, brother, we · What happens: know, lie, catch · To what, where: us, brother

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, brother, we), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lying	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lying	obl
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 catch	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 catch	advmod
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 catch	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 catch	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lie a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	brother		us			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	can	we	brother		again	always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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