The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 74

‘We can do nothing else,’ said Snati, ‘than attack them, if it is to go well; you will go against the little one, and I shall take the other.’

Who acts: We, Snati, heap, you, I · What happens: do, say, attack, be, go, take · To what, where: nothing, oxen, other · 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, heap, 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	_	4 do	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 attack	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 attack	punct
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 attack	mark
14	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 attack	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 go	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 go	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 attack	advcl
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 go	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
27	against	against	ADP	_	30 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 take	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 take	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	can	We	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Snati			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	attack	infinitive	Snati not said here	oxen = ox		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	heap		go, well property	tree rules
5	go	future	you		against the little one	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against one=Location
6	take	shall	I	the other		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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