The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 53
At the same time I shall give you a cap, which you must carefully keep, for it can save you, if you ever are in danger of your life, if you just put it on your head.
Who acts: I, you, cap · What happens: give, keep, save, be, put · To what, where: cap, you, danger, head
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, cap), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cap | det |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 keep | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cap | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 save | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 save | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 save | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 save | aux |
| 21 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keep | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 save | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 danger | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 danger | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 danger | nsubj |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 danger | advmod |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 danger | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 danger | case |
| 29 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 danger | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 put | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 put | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 put | nsubj |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 put | advmod |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 put | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 head | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall | I | a cap | you | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cap=Theme | ||
| 2 | keep | must | you | a cap | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | can | cap | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | danger | ever | of your life | tree rules | ||
| 5 | put a condition, not said to happen | past | you | cap | your head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination |
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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