The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 26

She told her how they could get hold of it, and how she was to coax it from him, and at last threatened her angrily, saying, ‘And if you do not obey me, you shall repent it!’

Who acts: woman, birds, you · What happens: tell, get, be, threaten, say, not obey · To what, where: girl, hold, last, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, birds, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 coax	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 coax	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 coax	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 coax	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 coax	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 coax	mark
17	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 coax	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 coax	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threatened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threatened	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 threatened	obl
25	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 angrily	nmod:poss
27	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	25 threatened	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 threatened	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ‘	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 repent	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	42 repent	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 obey	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 obey	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 obey	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 obey	advmod
37	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 repent	advcl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 obey	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 obey	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 repent	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 repent	aux
42	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saying	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 repent	obj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 repent	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 repent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	woman		girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get	could	birds = bird	hold of hold				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	is	past	woman				from Hunter; coax property	tree rules
4	threaten	past	woman not said here			last	angrily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	gerund	woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not obey a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	me				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	repent	shall	you	hold				tree rules
8	hold			hold				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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