The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 130

But if you will run back to the house where I lived, and fetch me my tinder-box, I will give you four shillings.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: run back, live, fetch, give · To what, where: tinder box, me, four shillings, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 run	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 run	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lived	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fetch	cc
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 run	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	obj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 box	nmod:poss
18	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 box	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 tinder	punct
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fetch	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 shillings	nummod
27	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 give	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run back	future	you			to the house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
2	live	past	I				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fetch	infinitive		my tinder box	me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary box=Theme
4	give	future	I	four shillings	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shilling=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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