The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 25

Having got you, we can place you where you will be able to shoot the dog before it begins to bark, and then no one can hinder us from getting the princess into our hands.

Who acts: we, you, dog, one · What happens: have, get, place, be, shoot, begin · To what, where: you, dog, us, princess, hands

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, dog, one), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 place	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 place	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 place	aux
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 able	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 able	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 shoot	mark
15	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoot	obj
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 begins	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begins	nsubj
20	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shoot	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bark	mark
22	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begins	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hinder	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hinder	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 hinder	advmod
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hinder	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hinder	aux
29	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 got	parataxis
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hinder	obj
31	from	from	SCONJ	_	32 getting	mark
32	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hinder	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 princess	det
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 getting	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hands	nmod:poss
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 getting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past		you				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	place	can	we					tree rules
4	is	future	you				able property	tree rules
5	shoot	to-infinitive	you not said here	the dog				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
6	begin	present	dog					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	bark	to-infinitive	dog not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hinder	can	no one	us		then		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer we=Eventuality
9	get	gerund	no one not said here	the princess	our hands			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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