The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 74
‘You shall go and return in perfect safety if you will follow our advice,’ said the Princesses.
Who acts: You · What happens: go, return, follow, say · To what, where: perfect safety, advice, Princesses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 return | cc |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 safety | case |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 safety | amod |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 follow | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | aux |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 return | advcl |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 advice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 follow | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princesses | det |
| 20 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | You | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | infinitive | You not said here | perfect safety | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow a condition, not said to happen | future | you | our advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Princesses | 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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