The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 2
But when you leave this wood and come near a palace which does not belong to my domain, let the lion go, in order that he may not fall into the hands of an enemy and be killed.’
Who acts: you, palace, lion, Most · What happens: leave, come, not belong, let, go, not fall · To what, where: wood, palace, lion, order, hands
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, palace, lion, Most), 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 | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 leave | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 belong | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 belong | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 belong | advmod |
| 15 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 palace | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 domain | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 domain | nmod:poss |
| 18 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belong | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lion | det |
| 22 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 order | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 order | case |
| 26 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 fall | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fall | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 fall | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fall | advmod |
| 31 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 hands | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hands | det |
| 34 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fall | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 enemy | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 enemy | det |
| 37 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hands | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 killed | cc |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 killed | aux:pass |
| 40 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fall | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | you | this wood | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | you not said here | a palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | not belong | present · do-support | a palace | to my domain | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | imperative | you not said here | the lion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the lion not said here | order | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | ||||
| 6 | not fall | may | Most | into the hands of a enemy result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | ||||
| 7 | kill | infinitive · passive | Most not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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