The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 37

Lay your snare, and if you can manage to catch them, I will let you pass.’

Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: lay, manage, catch, let, pass, snare · To what, where: snare, apples, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, your), 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	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 snare	nmod:poss
3	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 manage	cc
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 manage	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lay	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 catch	mark
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 manage	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lay	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lay	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	your snare	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Result
2	manage a condition, not said to happen	can	you		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	apples = apple	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	let	future	I	you	tree rules
5	pass	infinitive	you not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	snare		your		nom snare «cognition 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 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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