The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 22

But before I can resume my natural form, and take possession of the belongings of my forefathers, you must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: resume, take, go out, form, possess · To what, where: natural form, possession, world, service, belongings

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 resume	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 resume	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 resume	aux
5	resume	resume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 form	nmod:poss
7	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resume	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 resume	conj
12	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 belongings	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 belongings	det
15	belongings	belonging	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 possession	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 forefathers	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 forefathers	nmod:poss
18	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 belongings	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 resume	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
28	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 go	conj
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 maidservant	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 maidservant	det
32	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resume	can	I	my natural form			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
2	take	infinitive	I not said here	possession of the belongings of my forefathers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
3	go out	must	you		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	present	you not said here	service		as a maidservant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent service=Theme as maidservant=Attribute
5	form		my				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	possess			the belongings of my forefathers			nom possession «act 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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