The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 9

If we only stick to it you’ll see the mule will soon be ours.’

Who acts: we, you · What happens: stick, see, be · To what, where: way, mule, ours

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (we, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stick	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stick	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 stick	advmod
4	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stick	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mule	det
11	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ours	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ours	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ours	cop
15	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mule	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stick a condition, not said to happen	present	we		way		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient
2	see	future	you	the mule			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=Stimulus
3	is a	future	you not said here	ours		soon property	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 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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