The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 82
If you will guard the children who are hidden in the golden apple-tree, I will bring you at once up to the earth.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: guard, hide, bring · To what, where: children, golden apple tree, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 guard | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 guard | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 guard | aux |
| 4 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bring | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guard | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hidden | aux:pass |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 children | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 apple | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guard | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 bring | obl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 earth | det |
| 26 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the children | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | hide | present · passive | the children | the golden apple tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | future | I | you | up the earth | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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