The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 45
‘When you have reached him, beware of speaking a single word to him, or you will fall into the power of his friends.
Who acts: you · What happens: reach, beware, speak, fall · To what, where: man, single word, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 8 beware | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 beware | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 8 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 speaking | mark |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 beware | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 speaking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 fall | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fall | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beware | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fall | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 friends | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friends | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 power | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present · perfect | you | man | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beware | imperative | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | you not said here | a single word | man | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall | future | you | into the power of man's friends result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result |
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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