The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 23

‘If you ever find Solomon’s ring and get possession of it, then come back to me, that I may explain the inscription on the ring to you, for there is no one else in the world who can do this.’

Who acts: you, I, one · What happens: find, get, come back, explain, be, do · To what, where: ring, possession, me, inscription, you, this

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). 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, one), 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	_	10 get	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	advcl
6	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Solomon	case
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 possession	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 get	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 explain	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 explain	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 explain	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 explain	aux
24	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 inscription	det
26	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 explain	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 ring	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ring	det
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 explain	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 explain	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 is	case
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 explain	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 is	nsubj
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 one	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 one	nmod
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 do	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 do	aux
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 one	acl:relcl
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 do	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
47	’	'	SYM	_	10 get	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	find a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Solomon's ring			ever	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
2	get	imperative	you not said here	possession of possession				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
3	come back	infinitive	you not said here		me		then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	explain speech: assert	may	I	the inscription	you	the ring		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic to you=Recipient
5	be	present	no one in the world			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	can	no one in the world	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
7	possess			possession				nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/23/