The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 24

‘If I left him to you to bring up,’ said she, ‘you would be certain to make him as foolish as yourselves.

Who acts: I, task, you · What happens: leave, bring up, say, be, make · To what, where: Genesta, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, task, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 left	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 left	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 bring	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 certain	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 certain	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 certain	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 certain	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 certain	cop
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 certain	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 foolish	advmod
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 make	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 yourselves	case
27	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 foolish	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	I	Genesta	you		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Recipient
2	bring up	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	task				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	would	you			certain property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	Genesta		foolish property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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