The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 44

‘You are the only person who can kill him; and in consequence he fears you to such an extent that he has set spies to watch you, and they report your movements to him daily.

Who acts: You, only person, man, extent, spies, your · What happens: be, kill, fear, such, set, watch · To what, where: only person, man, you, consequence, extent, movements

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, only person, man, extent), 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	_	6 person	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 person	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kill	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 person	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kill	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fears	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fears	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 consequence	case
14	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fears	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fears	nsubj
16	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fears	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 such	mark
19	such	such	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fears	advcl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 extent	det
21	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 such	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 set	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 extent	acl:relcl
26	spies	spy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 set	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 watch	mark
28	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 set	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 watch	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 report	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 report	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 report	nsubj
33	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fears	parataxis
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 movements	nmod:poss
35	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 report	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 report	obl
38	daily	daily	ADV	_	33 report	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	the only person				tree rules
2	kill	can	the only person	man				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	fear	present	man	you		consequence		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	such	to-infinitive	man not said here	a extent				tree rules
5	set	present · perfect · passive	a extent not said here	man				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme spy=Destination
6	watch	to-infinitive	a extent not said here	you				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	report	present	spies = spy	your movements	man		daily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent movement=Topic to he=Recipient
8	move		your					nom movement «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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