The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 80

‘Ladder, Ladder, come out of thy hold, Or Drakestail’s days will soon be told.’

Who acts: Ladder, thy · What happens: come out, tell, hold · To what, where: days · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Ladder, thy), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	Ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ladder	punct
4	Ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ladder	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ladder	punct
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hold	case
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 hold	nmod:poss
10	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
12	Or	or	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
13	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 days	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Drakestail	case
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	nsubj:pass
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 told	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	aux:pass
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	infinitive	Ladder and Ladder		of thy hold; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	future · passive		Drakestail's days	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	hold		thy			nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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