The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 23

Hermod told her straight and plain that he would not do so, at which the Queen grew terribly angry, and said that in that case neither should he have Hadvor, for she would now lay this spell on him, that he should go to a desert island and there be a lion by day and a man by night.

Who acts: Hermod, Queen, lion · What happens: tell, plain, not do, grow, say, have · To what, where: Queen, Hadvor, case, spell, desert island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermod, Queen, lion), 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	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 plain	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plain	cc
6	plain	plain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plain	ccomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 grew	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	conj
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	20 angry	advmod
20	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 case	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 case	det
27	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obl
28	neither	neither	ADV	_	31 have	advmod
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
32	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lay	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 lay	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lay	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 lay	aux
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 lay	advmod
38	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	conj
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 spell	det
40	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lay	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lay	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 go	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 go	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 go	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 go	aux
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 lay	parataxis
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 island	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 island	det
50	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 island	compound
51	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 be	cc
53	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	54 be	expl
54	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 go	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 lion	det
56	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 be	nsubj
57	by	by	ADP	_	58 day	case
58	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 be	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 man	cc
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 man	det
61	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 day	conj
62	by	by	ADP	_	63 night	case
63	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 man	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hermod		Queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	plain	present						straight property	tree rules
3	not do	would	Hermod						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	the Queen					angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location
5	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	should	Hermod	Hadvor		that case		neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hadvor=Patient
7	lay	would	Queen	this spell			now	on Hermod	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination
8	go	should	Hermod			a desert island			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
9	be	infinitive	a lion			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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