The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 29

A Fairy gave me to your mother in order that I might be of service to you; so let me tell you, that if you go to sleep and let the wolves harm the tree, the Sun will surely kill you.

Who acts: Fairy, order, me, you, wolves, Sun · What happens: give, be, let, tell, go, sleep · To what, where: me, you, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, order, me, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 service	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 service	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 service	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 service	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 service	case
15	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 order	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 service	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 let	cc
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sleep	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wolves	det
34	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 harm	nsubj
35	harm	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 let	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tree	det
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 harm	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 kill	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sun	det
40	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 kill	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 kill	aux
42	surely	surely	ADV	_	43 kill	advmod
43	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tree	acl:relcl
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 kill	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	a Fairy		me	to your mother in order	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mother=Recipient
2	is	might	order		you	of service	tree rules
3	let	infinitive	a Fairy not said here	me			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	me not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	let	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
8	harm	present	the wolves	the tree			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer
9	kill	future	the Sun	you		surely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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