The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 50

Just try to take it off, and you will soon find out that I am more powerful than you are!”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: try, take off, find out, be · To what, where: finger

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 (you, I), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 try	advmod
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 find	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 find	advmod
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 find	compound:prt
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 powerful	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 powerful	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 powerful	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 powerful	advmod
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 powerful	obl
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 powerful	cop
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take off not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	finger		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find out	future	you		soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		than you; powerful property	tree rules

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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