The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 50

If he could only come to me I would make him overseer of all my business.

Who acts: boy, I · What happens: come, make · To what, where: me, boy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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	_	5 come	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	csubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 business	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 business	det:predet
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 business	nmod:poss
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 overseer	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	could	boy		me				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	make	would	I	boy					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product

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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