The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 29

You are stronger than many men, but they will catch you and put ropes round you, and you will have to work and to serve them all the days of your life.”

Who acts: You, men · What happens: be, catch, put, have, work, serve · To what, where: you, ropes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, men), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stronger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stronger	cop
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stronger	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 catch	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stronger	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 catch	conj
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 catch	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 serve	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 serve	mark
27	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 work	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 serve	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 days	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 days	det
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 serve	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 life	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 days	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stronger	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			than many men; strong property	tree rules
2	catch	future	men = man	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	put	infinitive	men = man not said here	ropes		round you	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rope=Goal
4	have	future	you				tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	serve	to-infinitive	you not said here	ropes = rope	day		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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