The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 16
This will make him waken up, and if he catches sight of you he will seize you.
Who acts: This, monster · What happens: make, waken up, catch, seize, sight · To what, where: monster, sight, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, monster), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 waken | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seize | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seize | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 catches | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catches | nsubj |
| 11 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seize | advcl |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 catches | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sight | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seize | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 seize | aux |
| 17 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 seize | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | This | monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | waken up | infinitive | monster not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | catch a condition, not said to happen | present | monster | sight of you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | future | monster | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | you | nom sight «cognition 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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