The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 66

“Where are you going, Prince?” they said; “it is our duty to guard this place, and if we let you pass great misfortunes will happen to you and to us.

Who acts: you, Nymphs, way, we, great misfortunes · What happens: go, say, be, guard, let, pass · To what, where: Prince, duty, place, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Nymphs, way, 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	_	5 going	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 going	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Prince	punct
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 duty	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 duty	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 duty	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 duty	cop
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 duty	nmod:poss
17	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 guard	mark
19	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 duty	acl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 let	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 misfortunes	amod
30	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 happen	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 happen	aux
32	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pass	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 happen	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 us	cc
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 us	case
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 you	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	you	Prince		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Nymphs = nymph			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	way	our duty		tree rules
4	guard in a quote	to-infinitive	Nymphs = nymph not said here	this place		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Beneficiary
5	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	you		tree rules
6	pass in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
7	happen in a quote	future	great misfortunes		you	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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