The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 8

There will I go to seek him, and woe betide me if I return without a warrior that can guard the fountain, as well as he who kept it before.’

Who acts: I, woe, warrior · What happens: go, seek, betide, return, guard, keep · To what, where: Luned, me, fountain

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woe, warrior), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 go	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seek	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 betide	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 betide	cc
10	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 betide	nsubj
11	betide	betide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 betide	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 return	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 return	nsubj
15	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 betide	advcl
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 warrior	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 warrior	det
18	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 return	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 guard	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 guard	aux
21	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 warrior	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fountain	det
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guard	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kept	punct
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	30 kept	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	as	as	ADP	_	25 as	fixed
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kept	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 kept	nsubj
30	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kept	obj
32	before	before	ADV	_	30 kept	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I		there		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	Luned			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	betide	present	woe	me			tree rules
4	return a condition, not said to happen	present	I			without a warrior	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	guard	can	a warrior	the fountain			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Beneficiary
6	keep	past	woe	fountain		before property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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