The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 78

‘Ah, I remember now,’ replied the donkey, ‘but the stones return so quickly to their places, that you certainly would be crushed to death unless you have in your hands a bunch of crowsfoot and of five-leaved trefoil.’

Who acts: I, stones, you · What happens: remember, reply, return, crush, have · To what, where: donkey, you, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stones, 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 remember	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 remember	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 remember	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 donkey	det
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 return	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stones	det
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 return	nsubj
17	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 quickly	advmod
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 return	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 places	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 places	nmod:poss
22	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 return	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crushed	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 crushed	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 crushed	nsubj:pass
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 crushed	advmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 crushed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 crushed	aux:pass
29	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 return	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 death	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crushed	obl
32	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 crushed	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hands	nmod:poss
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	obl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bunch	det
39	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hands	nmod:unmarked
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 crowsfoot	case
41	crowsfoot	crowsfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bunch	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 trefoil	cc
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 trefoil	case
44	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 leaved	nummod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 five	punct
46	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 trefoil	amod
47	trefoil	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bunch	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I			now		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past		the donkey				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent donkey=Topic
3	return	present	the stones				to stones's places result; quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
4	crush	would · passive		you			to death result; certainly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result
5	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you		your hands a bunch of crowsfoot and leaved trefoil			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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