The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 70

'Why I could snap those in a moment,' said he; 'if you want to make sure that I cannot escape, better take a line of kelp and bind me with that.'

Who acts: I, Wolf, you · What happens: snap, say, want, make, not escape, take · To what, where: those, line, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Wolf, you), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 snap	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 snap	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 snap	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 snap	aux
5	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 snap	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 those	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snap	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 want	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 snap	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 escape	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 escape	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 escape	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 escape	advmod
26	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sure	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 take	parataxis
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 snap	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 line	det
31	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 kelp	case
33	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 line	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bind	cc
35	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bind	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 that	case
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 bind	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snap	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 snap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	snap	could	I	those	in a moment		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	not escape	can	I				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take	infinitive	I not said here	a line of kelp			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
7	bind	infinitive	I not said here	me		with that	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Patient with that=Co-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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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