The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 58

But if I were you I should take the advice that was given me and ride the snail.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, take, give, ride · To what, where: you, advice, me, snail

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 take	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 you	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 take	advcl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 advice	det
10	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux:pass
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 advice	acl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 given	iobj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ride	cc
16	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 take	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snail	det
18	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ride	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	you		tree rules
2	take	should	I	the advice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
3	give	past · passive		the advice	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme
4	ride	present	I not said here	the snail		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=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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