The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 222

If it be good, give me the answer; and if it be bad, give me the answer.’

Who acts: soul, you · What happens: be, give · To what, where: answer, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, 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	_	4 good	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 give	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 answer	det
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 bad	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bad	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 bad	cop
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 give	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bad	punct
17	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	soul			good property	tree rules
2	give	imperative	you not said here	the answer	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	soul			bad property	tree rules
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	the answer	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=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 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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