The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 8

Now mark what I say—if the flame ascends I conquer, and if it sinks I fail; but if you see that I am winning, fling the bridle, which you must take off me, over his head, and then he will become quite gentle.’

Who acts: you, I, flame, bridle, Dapplegrim · What happens: mark, say, ascend, conquer, sink, fail · To what, where: bridle, head, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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, I, flame, bridle), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 mark	advmod
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mark	ccomp
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 ascends	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 ascends	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flame	det
9	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascends	nsubj
10	ascends	ascend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mark	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 conquer	nsubj
12	conquer	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ascends	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fail	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fail	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 sinks	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sinks	nsubj
17	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fail	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 fail	nsubj
19	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 conquer	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 fling	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 fling	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fling	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 winning	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 winning	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 winning	aux
28	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 see	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
30	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 mark	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bridle	det
32	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fling	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 take	nsubj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bridle	parataxis
38	off	off	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 take	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 head	punct
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 head	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fling	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 become	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 become	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 become	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 become	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 become	aux
49	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fling	parataxis
50	quite	quite	ADV	_	51 gentle	advmod
51	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 become	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mark	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 mark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	imperative	you not said here			now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	ascend a condition, not said to happen	present	the flame					tree rules
4	conquer	present	I					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sink a condition, not said to happen	present	flame					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fail	present	I					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	win	present · progressive	I					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	fling	infinitive	you not said here	the bridle	Dapplegrim's head			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme over head=Destination
10	take off	must	the bridle	me				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
11	become	future	Dapplegrim			then	gentle property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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