The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 66

Well, listen to me before you ride any further; let me tell you that this wood hides in its depths a countless number of the fiercest tigers, hyenas, wolves, bears, and snakes, and all sorts of other monsters.

Who acts: you, me, wood · What happens: listen, ride, let, tell, hide · To what, where: snakes, me, you, countless number, depths · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, me, wood), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 listen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 listen	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 ride	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ride	nsubj
8	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	advcl
9	any	any	ADV	_	10 further	advmod
10	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 ride	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hides	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	nsubj
19	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 depths	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 depths	nmod:poss
22	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hides	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 number	det
24	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 number	amod
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 tigers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tigers	det
28	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 tigers	amod
29	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 number	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hyenas	punct
31	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tigers	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wolves	punct
33	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tigers	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bears	punct
35	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tigers	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 snakes	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 snakes	cc
38	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listen	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 monsters	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 monsters	cc
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 sorts	det
42	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 monsters	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 monsters	case
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 monsters	amod
45	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 snakes	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here	snakes and other monsters	me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	ride	present	you				far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	me				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	hide	present	this wood	a countless number of the fiercest tigers and hyenas and wolves and bears		wood's depths		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in depth=Location

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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