The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 14
I will tie a rope round your waist, so that I may be able to pull you up again when you call.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tie, be, pull up, call · To what, where: rope, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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), 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 | 3 tie | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tie | aux |
| 3 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tie | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 waist | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 waist | nmod:poss |
| 8 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tie | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 able | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tie | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pull | mark |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pull | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 pull | compound:prt |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 pull | advmod |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 call | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 call | nsubj |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pull | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tie | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | future | I | a rope | round your waist | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | may | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pull up | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result | |||
| 4 | call | present | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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