The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 5

‘Now I must go to the bottom,’ he said, ‘but when I give a good jerk to the cable and want to come up again, you must all pull like one man, or there will be an end of all life both for you and for me.’

Who acts: I, Minnikin, you, end · What happens: go, say, give, want, come up, pull · To what, where: bottom, good jerk, cable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (I, Minnikin, you, end), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 give	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
18	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 jerk	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 jerk	amod
21	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cable	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cable	det
24	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 want	cc
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 give	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 want	xcomp
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pull	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 pull	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 pull	aux
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 pull	advmod
35	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	conj
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 man	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 man	nummod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pull	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 be	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 be	cc
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 be	expl
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 be	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 you	cop
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 end	det
45	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 you	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 life	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 life	det
48	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 end	nmod
49	both	both	ADV	_	51 you	advmod
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 you	case
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 pull	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 me	cc
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 me	case
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 you	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I			the bottom	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	present	I	a good jerk	the cable				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jerk=Theme to cable=Recipient
4	want	present	I not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	come up not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pull	must	you					like one man; all property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	infinitive	a end of all life					for you; both property	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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