The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 65

Then the beautiful girl said to him, ‘If you succeed in bringing the mare back safely the third day, ask the Mother Dragon to give you a foal of the mare as a reward.’

Who acts: beautiful girl, you · What happens: say, succeed, bring back, ask, give · To what, where: Prince, mare, Mother, foal, 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 (beautiful girl, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 succeed	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 succeed	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 succeed	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 succeed	nsubj
12	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 bringing	mark
14	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 succeed	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mare	det
16	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bringing	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	14 bringing	advmod
18	safely	safely	ADV	_	21 day	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bringing	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 succeed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Mother	det
25	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obj
26	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Mother	appos
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ask	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 foal	det
31	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 mare	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mare	det
34	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 foal	nmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 reward	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 reward	det
37	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the beautiful girl		Prince	then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	succeed a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring back	gerund	you not said here		the mare	day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mare=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		the Mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a foal of the mare	you		as a reward	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient foal=Theme

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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