The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 110

I have only to blow my whistle and you will be at my brother’s house before nightfall.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: blow, be, whistle · To what, where: whistle, house

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 blow	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 blow	mark
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 whistle	nmod:poss
7	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 house	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 house	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 house	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 house	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 brother	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 nightfall	case
18	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	blow	present	I	my whistle		before nightfall	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	is	future	you		my brother's house		tree rules
3	whistle		my				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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