The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 20

If you go into the first room, you will see a great chest in the middle of the floor with a dog sitting upon it; he has eyes as large as saucers, but you needn’t trouble about him.

Who acts: you, dog, lip · What happens: go, see, sit, have, need · To what, where: first room, great chest, middle, eyes, trouble

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 (you, dog, lip), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 go	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chest	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chest	amod
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 dog	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floor	nmod
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 dog	acl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	parataxis
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 has	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 large	advmod
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 has	xcomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 saucers	case
34	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 large	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 need	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 need	cc
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 need	nsubj
38	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 has	conj
39	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 trouble	advmod
40	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 need	obj
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 trouble	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you		the first room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	see	future	you	a great chest	the middle of the floor with a dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a dog not said here			upon dog	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
4	have	present	lip	eyes		large property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	need	present	you	trouble		about lip	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=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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