The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 74

If I would only yield to his wishes he could easily open these vessels, and all would then resume their former shapes.

Who acts: I, Magician, all · What happens: yield, open, resume, wish · To what, where: vessels, former shapes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Magician, all), 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	_	5 yield	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 yield	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 yield	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 yield	advmod
5	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 open	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wishes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wishes	nmod:poss
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 yield	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 open	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 open	aux
11	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 open	advmod
12	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 vessels	det
14	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 open	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 resume	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 resume	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 resume	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 resume	aux
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 resume	advmod
20	resume	resume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 open	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shapes	nmod:poss
22	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shapes	amod
23	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 resume	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	yield a condition, not said to happen	would	I			to Magician's wishes	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme
2	open	could	Magician	this vessels		easily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vessel=Theme
3	resume	would	all	vessels's former shapes	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
4	wish		Magician				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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