The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 34

But before her death she called her husband to her and said, ‘Never let the child put his feet on the ground, for as soon as he does so he will fall into the power of a wicked Fairy, who will do him much harm.’

Who acts: Queen, child, husband, wicked Fairy · What happens: call, say, not let, put, do, fall · To what, where: husband, last, feet, ground, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Queen, child, husband, wicked Fairy), 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	_	6 called	cc
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 death	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 death	nmod:poss
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fall	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 fall	mark
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 fall	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 does	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 does	nsubj
31	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fall	advcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 fall	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fall	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fall	aux
35	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	advcl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 power	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 power	det
38	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Fairy	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 Fairy	det
41	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Fairy	amod
42	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 power	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 do	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 do	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 do	aux
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 Fairy	acl:relcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 do	obj
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 harm	amod
49	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 do	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Queen	Queen's husband	last		before Queen's death		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Topic to she=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not let	infinitive							tree rules
4	put	past	the child	husband's feet		the ground			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ground=Destination
5	do	present	husband						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	future	husband					into the power of a wicked Fairy result; soon property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result
7	do	future	a wicked Fairy	husband					tree rules
8	die		Queen						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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