The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 24

I am sure there are many men in your kingdom who could protect these trees from the cunning arts of a thieving magician; I myself, who as your eldest son claim the first right to do so, will mount guard over the fruit this very night.’

Who acts: I, many men, kingdom · What happens: be, protect, thieve, claim, do, mount · To what, where: kingdom, trees, first right, guard, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (I, many men, kingdom), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kingdom	nmod:poss
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 are	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 protect	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 protect	aux
13	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kingdom	acl:relcl
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 protect	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 arts	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 arts	det
18	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 arts	amod
19	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 protect	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 magician	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 magician	det
22	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 magician	amod
23	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arts	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 myself	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 myself	nsubj
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sure	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 claim	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 claim	nsubj
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 son	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
31	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 son	amod
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 claim	obl
33	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 right	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 right	amod
36	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 claim	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 right	acl
39	so	so	ADV	_	38 do	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 mount	punct
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 mount	aux
42	mount	mount	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
43	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mount	obj
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 fruit	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fruit	det
46	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mount	obl
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 night	det
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 night	advmod
49	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mount	obl:unmarked
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				sure property	tree rules
2	does	present	many men		your kingdom; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location
3	protect	could	your kingdom	this trees			from the cunning arts of a thieving magician	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary from art=Theme
4	thieve	gerund						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	claim speech: other	present		the first right			as your eldest son	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic
6	do	to-infinitive		the first right not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mount	future		guard	the fruit	night		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over fruit=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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