The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 28

As he walks the said roads he shall take the utmost care not to trample upon the bodies of any of our loving subjects, their horses or carriages, nor take any of our subjects into his hands without their own consent.

Who acts: Mountain, roads · What happens: walk, say, take, not trample, consent · To what, where: said roads, utmost care, any, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mountain, roads), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walks	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walks	nsubj
3	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 take	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roads	det
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 roads	amod
6	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walks	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 care	det
11	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 care	amod
12	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 trample	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 trample	mark
15	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	advcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 bodies	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bodies	det
18	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trample	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 any	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bodies	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 subjects	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 subjects	nmod:poss
23	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 subjects	amod
24	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 any	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 horses	punct
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horses	nmod:poss
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 subjects	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 carriages	cc
29	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 subjects	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 take	cc
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 take	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 subjects	case
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 subjects	nmod:poss
36	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 any	nmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 hands	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 take	obl
40	without	without	ADP	_	43 consent	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 consent	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 consent	amod
43	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Mountain	the said roads			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	participle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	take	shall	Mountain	the utmost care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not trample	to-infinitive	Mountain not said here			upon the bodies of any	tree rules
5	take	infinitive	Mountain not said here	any	Mountain's hands	without roads's own consent	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent any=Theme into hand=Destination
6	consent		roads = road				nom consent «communication 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 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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