The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 91
Return to your own country and know that he will not be restored to you till you have for some time failed to recognise him.’
Who acts: you, time · What happens: return, know, not restore, have, fail, not recognise · To what, where: MONKEY, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time), 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 | Return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 country | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Return | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Return | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 restored | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 restored | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 restored | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 restored | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 restored | aux:pass |
| 13 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 know | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 restored | obl |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 restored | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 failed | mark |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 failed | nsubj |
| 22 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 recognise | mark |
| 24 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 failed | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 recognise | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Return | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | to your own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not restore | future · passive | MONKEY | you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fail | past | some time | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not recognise | to-infinitive | some time not said here | MONKEY | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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