The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 33
You shall, however, only lend them to him on condition that you may accompany him when he goes to make the payment, and that you then have permission to run before him as a fool.
Who acts: You, kingdom · What happens: lend, accompany, go, make, have, run · To what, where: bushels, kingdom, condition, payment, permission
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, kingdom), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lend | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lend | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shall | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 lend | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 lend | advmod |
| 7 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lend | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lend | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lend | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 accompany | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 accompany | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 accompany | aux |
| 16 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lend | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accompany | obj |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 goes | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 accompany | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 goes | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 payment | det |
| 24 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 have | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 have | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 have | advmod |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lend | conj |
| 31 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 run | mark |
| 33 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 permission | acl |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 run | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 fool | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 fool | det |
| 38 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 run | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | shall | You | bushels = bushel | kingdom | condition | however property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |
| 2 | accompany | may | you | kingdom | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | kingdom | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | kingdom not said here | the payment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset payment=Product | ||||
| 5 | have | present | you | permission | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | |||
| 6 | run | to-infinitive | you not said here | permission not said here | before kingdom | as a fool | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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