The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 110

Mount upon my back: I will take you to a woman who can direct you how to kill the Seven-headed Serpent.’

Who acts: Mount · What happens: take, direct, kill · To what, where: you, headed Serpent

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mount), 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	Mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	nsubj
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mount	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 woman	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 direct	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 direct	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 direct	aux
15	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 direct	obj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 kill	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 kill	mark
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 direct	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Serpent	det
21	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 headed	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Seven	punct
23	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Serpent	amod
24	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kill	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	future	Mount upon my back		you		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	direct	can		you		to a woman	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	kill	to-infinitive		the headed Serpent			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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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