The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 8

And besides the horse, the magician gave him a zither, a fiddle, and a flute, saying: “If you are in danger, touch the zither; and if no one comes to your aid, then play on the fiddle; but if that brings no help, blow on the flute.”

Who acts: magician, you, one, that · What happens: beside, give, say, be, touch, come · To what, where: horse, zither, danger, aid, fiddle, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, you, one, that), 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	_	2 besides	cc
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 besides	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zither	det
11	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fiddle	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fiddle	det
14	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 zither	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flute	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flute	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flute	det
18	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 zither	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gave	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 touch	punct
23	If	if	SCONJ	_	27 danger	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 danger	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 danger	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 danger	case
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touch	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 danger	punct
29	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 saying	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 zither	det
31	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touch	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 play	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 play	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 comes	mark
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 comes	nsubj
37	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 play	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 aid	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 aid	nmod:poss
40	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 comes	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 comes	punct
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 play	advmod
43	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	parataxis
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 fiddle	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fiddle	det
46	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 play	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 blow	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 blow	cc
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 brings	mark
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 brings	nsubj
51	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 blow	advcl
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 help	det
53	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 brings	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 brings	punct
55	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	parataxis
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 flute	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 flute	det
58	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 blow	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 blow	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	55 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	beside	present		the horse				tree rules
2	give	past	the magician	a zither and a fiddle and a flute	horse			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient zither=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the magician not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			danger		tree rules
5	touch in a quote	infinitive		the zither				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme zither=Co-Theme
6	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	no one			your aid		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location
7	play in a quote	infinitive				the fiddle	then	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that	no help				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent help=Theme
9	blow in a quote	infinitive				the flute		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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