The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 113
If it swims home to me, well and good; and if it doesn’t, it’s no matter.’
Who acts: bridge · What happens: swim, not do · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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 swims | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swims | nsubj |
| 3 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 swims | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 swims | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 8 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 swims | discourse |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 good | cc |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 well | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ’s | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ’s | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 does | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 does | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ’s | advcl |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 does | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 does | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ’s | nsubj |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swims | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’s | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swims | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | bridge | me | home property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | bridge | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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