The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 20

Then you will be well, and I can touch you.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, touch · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 touch	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 well	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 well	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 well	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Then	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 touch	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 touch	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 touch	aux
10	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 touch	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	you					well property	tree rules
2	touch	can	I	you			then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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