The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 89

‘How I wish,’ said the Fairy, ‘that I dared to tell you what is in store for you, and warn you of the traps which lie in your path, but I must not.

Who acts: I, traps · What happens: wish, say, dare, tell, be, warn · To what, where: Fairy, you, store, path · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, traps), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wish	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
4	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dared	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 dared	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dared	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 dared	nsubj
14	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dared	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 store	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 store	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 store	case
21	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 warn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 warn	cc
26	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 warn	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 traps	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 traps	det
30	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 warn	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lie	nsubj
32	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 traps	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 path	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 path	nmod:poss
35	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lie	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 must	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 must	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 must	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 warn	parataxis
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 must	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past		the Fairy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
3	dare	past	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		for you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present				store		tree rules
6	warn speech: warn	infinitive			you		of the traps	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of trap=Topic
7	lie	present	the traps			your path		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=Location

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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