The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 73
I will make you a present of them both, as I am anxious to save your life; but you must leave your horse behind you, for it would stumble over the fallen trees or get entangled in the briers and thorns.
Who acts: I, you, horse · What happens: make, be, save, leave, stumble, fall · To what, where: present, you, life, horse, fallen trees
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, you, horse), 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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 present | nmod |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 anxious | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 anxious | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 anxious | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 anxious | cop |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 save | mark |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 anxious | xcomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 leave | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 leave | aux |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | parataxis |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stumble | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 stumble | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stumble | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stumble | aux |
| 32 | stumble | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 trees | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 trees | det |
| 35 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 trees | amod |
| 36 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stumble | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 get | cc |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | conj |
| 39 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 get | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 briers | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 briers | det |
| 42 | briers | brier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 entangled | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 thorns | cc |
| 44 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 briers | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | a present of crumbs | you | both property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | ||
| 2 | is | present | I | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | I not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | must | you | your horse | behind you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme behind you=Location | |||
| 5 | stumble | would | horse | the fallen trees | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | get | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | entangle | participle | you not said here | in the briers and thorns | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in brier=Theme |
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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