The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 145

‘I would rather,’ she said, ‘that you did not go to play with the Gruagach, for though twice you have won yet some day he will win, and then he will put trouble upon you.’

Who acts: wife, you, King · What happens: say, not go, play, win, put · To what, where: trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, King), 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	_	3 would	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	3 would	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 Gruagach	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Gruagach	det
20	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 won	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 twice	case
23	though	though	ADV	_	24 twice	advmod
24	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 won	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 won	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 won	aux
27	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 go	conj
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 won	advmod
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 won	obl:unmarked
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 win	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 win	aux
33	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 won	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 put	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 put	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 put	aux
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
40	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 put	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go	past · do-support	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	to-infinitive	you not said here			with the Gruagach	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gruagach=Co-Agent
4	win	present · perfect	you		yet; day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for twice=Beneficiary
5	win	future	King				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	future	King	trouble	then	upon you	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme upon you=Destination

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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