The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 6

It was the duty of the nuns to watch the light in turns, that it might never go out, and if anyone of them let it go out the others put her to death.

Who acts: light, anyone, others · What happens: be, watch, not go out, let, go out, put · To what, where: duty, light, turns, convent

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 (light, anyone, others), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 duty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 duty	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duty	det
4	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 nuns	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nuns	det
7	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 duty	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 watch	mark
9	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 duty	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watch	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 turns	case
13	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 watch	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 go	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 watch	conj
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 let	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 anyone	nmod
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 go	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 others	det
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 put	nsubj
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 go	parataxis
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 death	case
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 duty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	light	the duty			of the nuns	tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive		the light		turns		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	not go out	might	light				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	anyone	light				tree rules
5	go out	infinitive	light not said here					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	past	the others		convent		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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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