The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 103

At night, when he is asleep, you must get up very quietly, and fasten the thread round his left foot as firmly as possible; and you will see in the morning he will not have changed back into a Pig, but will still be a man.

Who acts: teller, you · What happens: be, get up, fasten, see, not change back · To what, where: thread, morning, man

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, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asleep	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 asleep	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asleep	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asleep	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 get	compound:prt
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 quietly	advmod
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fasten	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fasten	cc
17	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 get	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thread	det
19	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fasten	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	23 foot	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
22	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 foot	amod
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fasten	obl
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 firmly	advmod
25	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	17 fasten	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 possible	mark
27	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 firmly	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asleep	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 morning	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morning	det
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 changed	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 changed	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 changed	advmod
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 changed	aux
40	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 morning	acl:relcl
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 changed	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 Pig	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 Pig	det
44	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 changed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 man	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 man	cc
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 man	aux
48	still	still	ADV	_	51 man	advmod
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 man	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 man	det
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	teller		night	asleep property	tree rules
2	get up	must	you			quietly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fasten	infinitive	you not said here	the thread		round teller's left foot; firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient
4	see	future	you		morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not change back	future · perfect	teller	the morning not said here		into a Pig result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent morning=Patient into pig=Result
6	is a	future		a man	still		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 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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