The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 74

The fox thanked him heartily, tore two hairs out of his bushy tail, and said: ‘Should you ever stand in need of my help throw these two hairs into the fire, and in a moment I shall be at your side ready to obey you.’

Who acts: fox, you, I, my · What happens: thank, say, stand, throw, be, obey · To what, where: tore, Prince, need, two hairs, fire, side · 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 (fox, you, I, my), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tore	punct
7	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hairs	nummod
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tore	nmod
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 tail	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tail	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
13	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tail	amod
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hairs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 stand	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 stand	punct
20	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stand	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 stand	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 stand	advmod
23	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 need	case
25	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stand	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 help	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 help	nmod:poss
28	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 need	nmod
29	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stand	conj
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 hairs	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hairs	nummod
32	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 throw	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throw	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 side	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 side	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 moment	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 moment	det
40	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 side	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 side	nsubj
42	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 side	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 side	cop
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 side	case
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 side	nmod:poss
46	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	parataxis
47	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 side	amod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 obey	mark
49	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 ready	xcomp
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 obey	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the fox	tore two hairs out fox's bushy tail	Prince			heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	should	you			need of my help	ever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in need=Location
4	throw	infinitive	you not said here	this two hairs				into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hair=Theme into fire=Result
5	is	shall	I			your side	moment		tree rules
6	obey	to-infinitive	I not said here	you					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	need			my help					nom need «state transitive»: of=patient
8	help		my						nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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