The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 111

If we can once escape, we will go back home.

Who acts: we · What happens: escape, go back

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	5 escape	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 escape	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 escape	aux
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 escape	advmod
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 escape	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape a condition, not said to happen	can	we					once property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	future	we					home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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