The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 22

‘This spell I lay upon you, that you slacken not your course until you come to my brother in the Underworld.’

Who acts: spell, you · What happens: lay, not slacken, come · To what, where: course

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spell, 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	_	5 lay	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slacken	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 slacken	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 slacken	nsubj
11	slacken	slacken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 slacken	advmod
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 course	nmod:poss
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slacken	obl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 slacken	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 brother	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 Underworld	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Underworld	det
23	Underworld	Underworld	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 brother	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	present	this spell		upon you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon you=Destination
2	not slacken	present	you	your course		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	present	you		to my brother in the Underworld	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location

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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