The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 28
Only, put him on my apron and he won’t touch you, and you can take out of the chest as much gold as you like!’
Who acts: you, Copenhagen · What happens: put, not touch, take out, like · To what, where: Copenhagen, apron, you, chest
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, Copenhagen), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 apron | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 apron | nmod:poss |
| 7 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 touch | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touch | nsubj |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 touch | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 touch | advmod |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 touch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 touch | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 chest | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 chest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chest | det |
| 22 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gold | amod |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 like | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 like | nsubj |
| 28 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | advcl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Copenhagen | my apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on apron=Destination | |||
| 2 | not touch | future | Copenhagen | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | take out | can | you | the chest | as much gold | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | |||
| 4 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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