The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 136

‘Now we must go in at once,’ said Snati, ‘and try to master her there, for if she once gets out we shall have no chance with her.

Who acts: we, Snati, hag · What happens: go in, say, try, master, get out, have · To what, where: hag, chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Snati, hag), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Snati	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 try	cc
16	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 master	mark
18	master	master	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 master	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 master	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 gets	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gets	nsubj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 gets	advmod
26	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 have	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 gets	compound:prt
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 chance	det
32	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	must	we			now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Snati					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	infinitive						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	master not said to happen	to-infinitive		hag	there			tree rules
5	get out a condition, not said to happen	present	hag				once property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	shall	we	no chance			with hag	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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