The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 61
Let him live; he cannot remain here, and if he goes higher up the mountain the clouds will take him and carry him off.’
Who acts: you, Hunter, clouds · What happens: let, live, not remain, go, take, carry off · To what, where: Hunter, mountain
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 (you, Hunter, clouds), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 remain | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 remain | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 remain | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 remain | advmod |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 remain | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 goes | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | advcl |
| 15 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 goes | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 take | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carry | cc |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 take | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 carry | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | Hunter not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not remain | can | Hunter | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | Hunter | the mountain | high property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | take | future | the clouds | Hunter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 6 | carry off | infinitive | the clouds not said here | Hunter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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