The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 49

‘You see before you,’ said the old woman, ‘a mare and her foal; you have nothing to do but to lead them out to the fields every day, and to see that neither of them runs away from you.

Who acts: You, old woman, neither · What happens: see, say, have, do, lead out, run away · To what, where: nothing, mare, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old woman, neither), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mare	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 mare	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mare	det
15	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woman	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 foal	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 foal	nmod:poss
18	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mare	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nothing	acl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 lead	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 lead	mark
27	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 do	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lead	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 lead	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 fields	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fields	det
32	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lead	obl
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fields	nmod:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 see	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 runs	mark
40	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	43 runs	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 neither	nmod
43	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 see	ccomp
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 runs	advmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 runs	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You			before you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	you	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lead out	to-infinitive	you not said here	mare	the fields every day			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to field=Destination
6	see	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	run away	present	neither				from you; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory

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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