The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 73

But if the nest is just as empty when I come home, then I must part with you.’

Who acts: nest, I · What happens: be, come

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, I), 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	_	17 part	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 empty	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 empty	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 empty	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 empty	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 empty	case
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 part	advcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 empty	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 empty	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 part	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 part	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 part	aux
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 part	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 part	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the nest					empty property	tree rules
2	come	present	I					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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