The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 174
Till you have done this I won’t take my claws out of your fur.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, not take · To what, where: this, claws, fur
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 done | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 take | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 claws | nmod:poss |
| 11 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 fur | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fur | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fur | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | you | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not take | future | I | my claws | your fur | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent claw=Theme out fur=Initial_Location |
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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