The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 102

‘Here, then, my dear child,’ said the witch, ‘take this thread, but do not let him know about it, for if he did it would lose its healing power.

Who acts: teller, thread · What happens: say, take, not let, know, do, lose · To what, where: witch, thread, teller, healing power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teller, thread), 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 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Here	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 thread	det
18	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 know	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 let	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lose	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lose	aux
35	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 did	xcomp
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 power	nmod:poss
37	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 power	compound
38	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lose	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the witch		tree rules
2	take	infinitive		this thread		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
3	not let	infinitive · do-support		teller		tree rules
4	know	infinitive	teller not said here		about thread	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
5	do a condition, not said to happen	past	teller			tree rules
6	lose	would	thread	thread's healing power		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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