The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 34

I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orange tree my great lions would soon have eaten you up, I can tell you, and in Fairyland we do not suffer ourselves to be insulted like this.

Who acts: I, Fairy, we · What happens: be, eat up, tell, not suffer, insult · To what, where: Fairy, orange tree, you, ourselves, Fairyland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fairy, we), 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	4 Fairy	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 tell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Desert	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Desert	det
7	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fairy	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	12 Dwarf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dwarf	det
11	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dwarf	amod
12	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 eaten	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tree	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tree	nmod:poss
15	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tree	amod
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eaten	nsubj:pass
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lions	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lions	amod
19	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tree	nmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 eaten	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 eaten	aux
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tell	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 eaten	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tell	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 suffer	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 suffer	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Fairyland	case
34	Fairyland	Fairyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 suffer	obl
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 suffer	nsubj
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 suffer	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 suffer	advmod
38	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	conj
39	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 suffer	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 insulted	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 insulted	aux:pass
42	insulted	insult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 suffer	advcl
43	like	like	ADP	_	44 this	case
44	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 insulted	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the Fairy			of the Desert	tree rules
2	eat up	would · perfect · passive		Dwarf's orange tree my great lions			without the Yellow Dwarf; soon property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	the Fairy		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not suffer	present · do-support	we	ourselves		Fairyland		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ourselves=Stimulus
5	insult	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here				like this	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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