The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 38

Then the young man, taking off his own shoes, said: “First, you shall use these shoes till you have taken the Terrible Head, and then you must give them back to me.

Who acts: young man, you · What happens: take off, say, use, take, give back · To what, where: own shoes, shoes, Terrible Head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 man	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taking	punct
6	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	acl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 taking	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shoes	amod
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
15	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 use	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 First	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 use	aux
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 shoes	det
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	obj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 taken	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 taken	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 taken	aux
25	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 use	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Head	det
27	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Head	amod
28	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taken	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 give	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	back	back	ADV	_	34 give	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	gerund	the young man not said here	man's own shoes				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use in a quote	shall	you	this shoes			first property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
4	take in a quote	present · perfect	you	the Terrible Head				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	give back in a quote	must	you		shoes = shoe	then	to the young man = man	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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