The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 73

Tell him that if he doesn’t meet me at this time to-morrow it is not likely that he will ever see me again all his life.’

Who acts: you, lad, morrow · What happens: tell, not meet, not be, see · To what, where: lad, me · 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 (you, lad, morrow), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 meet	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 meet	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meet	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 meet	advmod
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 meet	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 likely	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 morrow	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 likely	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meet	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 see	advmod
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 likely	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 life	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		lad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not meet a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	lad	me				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	not is	present	morrow			time	likely property	tree rules
4	see	future	lad	me		ever; again	lad's life obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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