The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 94

The knife frees all it touches from the spells that have been laid on them; while the stick will carry you wherever you want to go.

Who acts: knife, stick, you · What happens: free, touch, lay, carry, want, go · To what, where: spells, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knife, stick, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frees	nsubj
3	frees	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 touches	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touches	nsubj
6	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frees	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 spells	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spells	det
9	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touches	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laid	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 laid	aux:pass
13	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 spells	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 carry	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 carry	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stick	det
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carry	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 carry	aux
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 frees	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 carry	obj
23	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	25 want	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 carry	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 want	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	free	present	the knife				vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	touch	present	knife		the spells	all property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	present · perfect · passive		the spells		on spells = spell	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on they=Destination
4	carry	future	the stick	you			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	want	present	you			wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/94/