The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 51

‘Besides,’ she said, ‘if there is a single spark of life in you when the day comes, the stuff that is in this bottle will make you as sound as ever you were.’

Who acts: Princess, day, you · What happens: say, be, come, make, sound · To what, where: single spark, bottle, stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, day, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 spark	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 is	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spark	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spark	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spark	amod
14	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 life	case
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spark	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 spark	conj
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 you	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stuff	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stuff	det
25	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spark	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 make	obj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bottle	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 bottle	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 bottle	det
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	csubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stuff	acl:relcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 sound	nsubj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 sound	advmod
35	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 make	xcomp
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 sound	obl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 were	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sound	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 spark	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 spark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		a single spark and the stuff		of life	tree rules
3	come	present	the day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present			this bottle		tree rules
5	make	future		the stuff			tree rules
6	sound	present	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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