The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 29

‘Oh, if you want to fulfil her prophecies,’ laughed the princess, ‘you have only to let me tie my handkerchief round your ankle, and I will hold you as you hang over the wall of the bridge.’

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: want, fulfil, laugh, have, let, tie · To what, where: prophecies, princess, me, handkerchief, you, wall

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, I), 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	_	13 laughed	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 want	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 want	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fulfil	mark
8	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prophecies	nmod:poss
10	prophecies	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fulfil	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	parataxis
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 let	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 let	mark
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 handkerchief	nmod:poss
26	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tie	obj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 ankle	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ankle	nmod:poss
29	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tie	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hold	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hold	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 hold	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hold	aux
34	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	parataxis
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 hold	obj
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 hang	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 hang	nsubj
38	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hold	advcl
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 wall	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wall	det
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hang	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 bridge	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bridge	det
44	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wall	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fulfil not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	mother's prophecies			tree rules
3	laugh	past		the princess			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	have	present	you				tree rules
5	let	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules
6	tie	infinitive	me not said here	my handkerchief		round your ankle	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
7	hold	future	I	you			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	hang	present	you		the wall of the bridge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wall=Location

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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