The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 42

If I have taken the Golden Blackbird, it is only that it may cure my father, who is ill, and I have travelled more than seven hundred miles in order to find it.’

Who acts: I, Blackbird, father · What happens: take, be, travell, find · To what, where: Golden Blackbird, hundred miles, order, 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 (I, Blackbird, father), 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	_	4 taken	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 cure	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Blackbird	det
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Blackbird	amod
7	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cure	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cure	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 cure	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 cure	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cure	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cure	aux
15	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cure	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ill	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	cop
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 travelled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 travelled	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 travelled	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 travelled	aux
26	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ill	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	30 hundred	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 more	fixed
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hundred	compound
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 miles	nummod
31	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 travelled	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 order	case
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 miles	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 find	mark
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 travelled	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cure	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	I		the Golden Blackbird			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument blackbird=Destination
2	is	may · present	Blackbird				cure property	tree rules
3	is	present	my father				ill property	tree rules
4	travell	present · perfect	I	hundred miles		order		tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	Blackbird				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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