English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 61
And if you go there, may be they know something about the missing castle.”
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: go, be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | cop |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 know | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 14 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 something | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | you | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | may | brothers = brother | know 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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