The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 24

He should also think always of Hadvor, which would cause him all the more sorrow, and from this spell he should never be freed until Hadvor burned the lion’s skin, and that would not happen very soon.

Who acts: lion, spell, Hadvor, that · What happens: think, cause, not free, burn, not happen · To what, where: lion, skin, spell

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 (lion, spell, Hadvor, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 think	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Hadvor	case
7	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 always	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cause	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cause	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cause	aux
11	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cause	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sorrow	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sorrow	det
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 sorrow	amod
16	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 happen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 happen	cc
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 spell	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 spell	det
21	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 happen	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 freed	nsubj:pass
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 freed	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 freed	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 freed	aux:pass
26	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 spell	acl:relcl
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 burned	mark
28	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 burned	nsubj
29	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 freed	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lion	det
31	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 skin	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 lion	case
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 burned	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 happen	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 happen	cc
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 happen	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 happen	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 happen	advmod
39	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	parataxis
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 soon	advmod
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 happen	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	should	lion			always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	would		lion		all more sorrow obl	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient
3	not free	should · passive	this spell not said here	lion			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
4	burn	past	Hadvor	the lion's skin			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
5	not happen	would	that		this spell	soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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