The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 18
However, if I should die, you will find my wand above the door, and with it you can set free your sisters and their lovers.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: die, find, set · To what, where: wand, door, free sisters
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 (I, you), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 find | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 find | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wand | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 set | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 find | conj |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sisters | amod |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 set | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lovers | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sisters | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen | should | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find | future | you | my wand | the door | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Topic | ||
| 3 | set | can | you | your free sisters and sisters's lovers | with door | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sister=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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