The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 71

But, remember that, though he is so tall and strong, he is very stupid, and many a Lapp has escaped from his clutches by playing him some clever trick.'

Who acts: you, Stalos, many Lapp, Lapp · What happens: remember, be, escape, play, clutch · To what, where: clutches, clever trick, Lapp

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Stalos, many Lapp, Lapp), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 remember	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 tall	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tall	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 tall	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tall	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tall	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 tall	advmod
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remember	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strong	cc
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tall	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stupid	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stupid	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stupid	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 stupid	advmod
17	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tall	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 escaped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 escaped	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Lapp	amod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Lapp	det
22	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 escaped	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 escaped	aux
24	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 remember	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 clutches	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clutches	nmod:poss
27	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 escaped	obl
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 playing	mark
29	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 escaped	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 playing	obj
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 trick	det
32	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trick	amod
33	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 playing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	imperative	you not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Stalos				tall property	tree rules
3	be		Stalos not said here					tree rules
4	is	present	Stalos				stupid property	tree rules
5	escape	present · perfect	a many Lapp			Lapp's clutches		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial_Location
6	play	gerund	a many Lapp not said here	some clever trick	Lapp			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary trick=Theme
7	clutch		Lapp					nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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