The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 31
But all the same, she has forgotten one person, who will certainly kill you if you fall asleep and let the wolves damage the tree.
Who acts: Fairy, one person, you, wolves · What happens: forget, kill, fall, let, damage · To what, where: one person, you, wolves, tree
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, one person, you, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:2576): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 forgotten | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 same | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 same | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgotten | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | aux |
| 8 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 person | nummod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgotten | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 kill | advmod |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 fall | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 fall | nsubj |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | advcl |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fall | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fall | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wolves | det |
| 24 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 damage | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present · perfect | Fairy | one person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | future | one person | you | certainly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | you | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the wolves | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | damage | infinitive | the wolves not said here | the tree | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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