The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 12

If I go myself and the heathen king sees me he will just take me to be one of his wives.

Who acts: I, heathen king, husband · What happens: go, see, take, be · To what, where: myself, me, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heathen king, husband), 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 go	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 go	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sees	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	heathen	heathen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sees	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sees	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 take	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 one	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 take	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 wives	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wives	nmod:poss
21	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	I	myself			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	the heathen king	me			tree rules
3	take	future	husband		me		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
4	is a	to-infinitive		one		of husband's wives	tree rules

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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