The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 18
I will give you this little bell: if you ring it once, the King of the Eagles will appear; if you ring it twice, the King of the Foxes will come to you; and if you ring it three times, you will see the King of the Fishes by your side.
Who acts: I, you, King · What happens: give, ring, appear, come, see · To what, where: little bell, you, bell, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bell | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bell | amod |
| 7 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ring | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 ring | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ring | nsubj |
| 11 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ring | obj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 ring | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appear | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Eagles | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Eagles | det |
| 19 | Eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 appear | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 appear | aux |
| 21 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ring | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ring | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 ring | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ring | nsubj |
| 25 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ring | obj |
| 27 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 ring | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 King | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 come | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Foxes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Foxes | det |
| 33 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ring | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 come | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 see | cc |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 ring | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 ring | nsubj |
| 42 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 see | advcl |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ring | obj |
| 44 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 times | nummod |
| 45 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 ring | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ring | punct |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 see | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 see | aux |
| 49 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 King | det |
| 51 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 see | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Fishes | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Fishes | det |
| 54 | Fishes | Fish | PROPN | Number=Plur | 51 King | nmod |
| 55 | by | by | ADP | _ | 57 side | case |
| 56 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 side | nmod:poss |
| 57 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 see | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | this little bell | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | ring a condition, not said to happen | present | you | bell | once property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | appear | future | the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ring a condition, not said to happen | present | you | bell | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 5 | come | future | the King | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | ring a condition, not said to happen | present | you | bell | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 7 | see | future | you | the King of the Fishes | by your side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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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