The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 261

And if it will, I will send it in a litter to my father, and he will nurse it till it is well.’

Who acts: I, wonder, cloth · What happens: send, nurse, be · To what, where: cloth, litter

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 (I, wonder, cloth), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 send	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 will	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 will	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 will	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 send	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 send	aux
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 send	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 litter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 litter	det
12	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 father	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nurse	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 nurse	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nurse	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 nurse	aux
20	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nurse	nsubj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 is	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 is	nsubj
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 send	advcl
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 is	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	future	I	cloth	a litter	to my father	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in litter=Destination
2	nurse	future	wonder				tree rules
3	be	present	cloth			well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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