The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 47

If they seem to droop, you will know we are ill, and if they fall down and fade away, it will be a sign we are dead.’

Who acts: children, you, we, world · What happens: seem, droop, know, be, fall down, fade away · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, you, we, world), 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	_	3 seem	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seem	nsubj
3	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 droop	mark
5	droop	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seem	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ill	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sign	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sign	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fall	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fall	nsubj
17	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sign	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 fall	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fade	cc
20	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fall	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 fade	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fall	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sign	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sign	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sign	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sign	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	parataxis
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 dead	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sign	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem a condition, not said to happen	present	children = child			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	droop	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	we		ill property	tree rules
5	fall down a condition, not said to happen	present	children = child		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fade away	present	children = child not said here		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is a	future	world	a sign		tree rules
8	is	present	we	a sign not said here	dead 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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