The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 27

‘My father is ill, and he cannot be cured unless I bring him back the Golden Blackbird.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: be, not cure, bring back · To what, where: father, Golden Blackbird

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cured	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cured	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cured	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cured	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cured	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 cured	aux:pass
12	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ill	conj
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 bring	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bring	nsubj
15	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cured	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 bring	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Blackbird	det
19	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Blackbird	amod
20	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	My father			ill property	tree rules
2	not cure	can · passive		father			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
3	bring back a condition, not said to happen	present	I	the Golden Blackbird	father		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination blackbird=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 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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