The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 91
He was to wake the maiden instantly and carry her off, and to be sure not to pay any heed to whatever resistance she might make.
Who acts: Saphir, heart · What happens: be, carry off, not pay, make · To what, where: heart, heed, resistance
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wake | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wake | mark |
| 4 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wake | obj |
| 7 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 wake | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carry | cc |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wake | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carry | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sure | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sure | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wake | parataxis |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 pay | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pay | mark |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 heed | det |
| 21 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 whatever | case |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pay | obj |
| 24 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whatever | nsubj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 resistance | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Saphir | instantly, wake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry off | infinitive | Saphir not said here | heart | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not pay | to-infinitive | any heed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent heed=Recipient whatever=Asset | |||||
| 5 | make | might | heart | resistance not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product |
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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