The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 95

“Do you want me to employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my best friend, and take away from him a proud princess whom I can but look upon as my rival?”

Who acts: you, Fairy, Yellow Dwarf · What happens: want, employ, be, take away, look · To what, where: Fairy, art, best friend, proud princess

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, Fairy, Yellow Dwarf), 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	_	4 want	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 employ	mark
7	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 art	nmod:poss
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	13 Dwarf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dwarf	det
12	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Dwarf	amod
13	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 employ	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 friend	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 friend	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 friend	amod
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Dwarf	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 want	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 take	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
27	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 princess	amod
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 can	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 can	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 princess	acl:relcl
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 look	cc
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 take	conj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 rival	case
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 rival	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 rival	nmod:poss
37	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 look	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present · do-support	you	the Fairy of the Desert = fairy		tree rules
2	employ not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Fairy of the Desert = fairy not said here	my art	against the Yellow Dwarf	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	the Yellow Dwarf	my best friend		tree rules
4	take away in a quote	infinitive		a proud princess	from friend; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from he=Initial_Location
5	look in a quote	infinitive			upon my rival	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon rival=Theme

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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