The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 6

‘Oh, certainly, Sir King,’ she replied, ‘I can quite well do that, but on one condition, which if you do not fulfil you will never get out of the wood, and will die of hunger.’

Who acts: woman, I, one condition, you · What happens: reply, do, not fulfil, not get out, die · To what, where: Sir King, that, wood

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, one condition, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 King	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	compound
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
9	’	'	CCONJ	_	11 replied	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 replied	nsubj
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 do	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 do	advmod
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 replied	conj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 do	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 condition	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 condition	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 condition	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 condition	nummod
24	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fulfil	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fulfil	nsubj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 fulfil	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 fulfil	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fulfil	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 fulfil	advmod
31	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 condition	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fulfil	parataxis
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 wood	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 wood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wood	det
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 die	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 die	cc
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 die	aux
43	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 get	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 hunger	case
45	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 die	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 fulfil	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	woman	Sir King		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	can	I	that	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	not fulfil a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	one condition			tree rules
4	not get out	future	you	the wood		tree rules
5	die	future	you not said here		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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