The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 95

I will give you the knife to guard you against the enchantments of wizards, and the bell to tell me of your perils.

Who acts: I, your · What happens: give, guard, tell, enchant, peril · To what, where: knife, you, me, wizards · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 guard	mark
8	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 guard	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 enchantments	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enchantments	det
12	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 guard	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wizards	case
14	wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enchantments	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bell	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bell	det
18	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bell	acl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 perils	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 perils	nmod:poss
24	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	the knife	you	the bell obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient knife=Theme
2	guard	to-infinitive	I not said here		you	against the enchantments of wizards	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary against enchantment=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		me	of your perils	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	enchant			wizards			nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	peril		your				nom peril «state 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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