The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 138

If milk flows, it is a sign that we are well and prosperous; but if, instead of milk, there is blood, then we are either dead or in great danger.’

Who acts: milk, we · What happens: flow, be · To what, where: sign

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 (milk, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 flows	mark
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flows	nsubj
3	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sign	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flows	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sign	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sign	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sign	det
8	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 prosperous	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 prosperous	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prosperous	cop
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 prosperous	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prosperous	cc
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sign	acl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dead	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 dead	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 is	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 milk	punct
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 milk	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 milk	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dead	advcl
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 dead	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 dead	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dead	cop
30	either	either	CCONJ	_	31 dead	cc:preconj
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sign	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 danger	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 danger	case
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 danger	amod
35	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dead	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sign	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 sign	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow a condition, not said to happen	present	milk					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	milk	a sign				tree rules
3	is	present	we	a sign not said here			prosperous, well property	tree rules
4	be a condition, not said to happen	present	milk		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	we			then	dead property	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 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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