The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 47

‘Very well,’ said the Mother Dragon; ‘but if you wish to enter my service, you must first lead my mare out to the meadow and look after her for three days; but if you don’t bring her home safely every evening, we will eat you up.’

Who acts: Mother Dragon, you, we, my · What happens: say, wish, enter, lead, look, not bring · To what, where: service, mare, dragon, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mother Dragon, you, we, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dragon	det
8	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Dragon	compound
9	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 lead	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 lead	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 wish	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wish	nsubj
15	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lead	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 enter	mark
17	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wish	xcomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 service	nmod:poss
19	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enter	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wish	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 lead	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lead	aux
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 lead	advmod
24	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mare	nmod:poss
26	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lead	obj
27	out	out	ADV	_	24 lead	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 meadow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 meadow	det
30	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 out	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 look	cc
32	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 lead	conj
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 days	case
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 look	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 eat	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 eat	cc
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 bring	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 bring	nsubj
42	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 bring	aux
43	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 bring	advmod
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 eat	advcl
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	home	home	ADV	_	44 bring	advmod
47	safely	safely	ADV	_	44 bring	advmod
48	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	49 evening	det
49	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obl:unmarked
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bring	punct
51	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 eat	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 eat	aux
53	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 eat	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 eat	compound:prt
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Mother Dragon				well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	my service				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
4	lead	must	you	my mare			first, out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme
5	look	infinitive	you not said here			after dragon; day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	not bring a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you		dragon	evening	home, safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
7	eat up	future	we	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
8	service		my					nom service «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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