The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 30
“Come with me and I will carry you to the Castle of Steel, and we will leave upon this shore a figure so like you that even the Fairy herself will be deceived by it.”
Who acts: you, Princess, we · What happens: come, carry, leave, that, deceive · To what, where: you, Castle, figure, shore, Fairy
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Castle | det |
| 12 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Steel | case |
| 14 | Steel | Steel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Castle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | aux |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | parataxis |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 figure | det |
| 24 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 deceived | advmod |
| 26 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 28 that | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 that | nsubj |
| 28 | that | that | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 deceived | advcl |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 Fairy | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fairy | det |
| 31 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 that | obj |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 deceived | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 deceived | aux:pass |
| 35 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 leave | advcl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 deceived | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | with Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | future | Princess | you | the Castle of Steel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave in a quote | future | we | a figure | this shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent figure=Theme upon shore=Location | |||
| 4 | that in a quote | present | you | the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deceive in a quote | future · passive | Fairy | by figure | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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