The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 192
If this were a moment to trouble you with riddles, I would make you guess what Schurka and I have brought you back.
Who acts: this, I, you · What happens: be, make, guess, bring back · To what, where: moment, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 moment | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moment | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trouble | mark |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moment | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 trouble | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 riddles | case |
| 10 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 guess | obj |
| 18 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 what | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 make | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | this | a moment | trouble with riddles nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | would | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guess | infinitive | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring back | present · perfect | I | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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