The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 10

If I were to tell you, you would become just as wretched as myself.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, become · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 become	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 become	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 wretched	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 wretched	advmod
13	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 myself	case
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 wretched	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	become	would	you					wretched property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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