The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 9

‘You stand behind me,’ said she, ‘and I will hold the carbuncle which will make us invisible, and with the King’s dagger I can protect you from the enemy.’

Who acts: You, message, I, carbuncle · What happens: stand, say, hold, make, protect · To what, where: carbuncle, us, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, message, I, carbuncle), 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	_	3 stand	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stand	nsubj
3	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 stand	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	INTJ	_	8 said	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hold	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hold	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hold	aux
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 carbuncle	det
17	carbuncle	carbuncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 make	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 carbuncle	acl:relcl
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 protect	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 protect	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 dagger	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dagger	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 King	case
29	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 protect	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 protect	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 protect	aux
32	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hold	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 protect	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 enemy	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 enemy	det
36	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 protect	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stand	present	You			behind me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind i=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	message				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold	future	I	the carbuncle			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbuncle=Theme
4	make	future	the carbuncle	us		invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product
5	protect	can	I		you	with the King's dagger; from the enemy	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from enemy=Theme

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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