The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 49

‘Oh! don’t let that trouble you,’ replied the shark, ‘you have only to sit on my back and I will undertake that not a drop of water shall touch you.’

Who acts: you, I, drop · What happens: not let, reply, have, sit, undertake, touch · To what, where: trouble, shark, back, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. 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, drop), 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	_	6 let	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 let	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 trouble	det
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shark	det
14	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 sit	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 undertake	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 undertake	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 undertake	aux
28	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 touch	mark
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 drop	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drop	det
32	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touch	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drop	nmod
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 touch	aux
36	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 undertake	advcl
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 touch	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not let	infinitive · do-support		that trouble		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Recipient you=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past		the shark		tree rules
3	have	present	you			tree rules
4	sit	to-infinitive	you not said here		my back	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
5	undertake	future	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	touch	shall	a drop of water	you		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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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