The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 24

If you like I will swear never to----’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, not swear

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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), 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	_	3 like	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swear	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 swear	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 swear	aux
6	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 swear	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	7 never	fixed
9	----	----	PUNCT	_	6 swear	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 swear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not swear	future	I						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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