The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 55

He will ask you to cut pieces out of his legs to give to the dogs, but that you must not promise to do unless he tells you where Hermod has gone to, and tells you how to find him.

Who acts: ghost, you, Hermod · What happens: ask, cut, give, not promise, do, tell · To what, where: you, pieces, legs, dogs, ghost · 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 (ghost, you, Hermod), 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	3 ask	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ask	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	xcomp
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 legs	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 dogs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dogs	det
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promise	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 promise	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 promise	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 promise	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 promise	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 promise	advmod
23	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promise	xcomp
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	28 tells	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tells	nsubj
28	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 promise	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tells	iobj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 gone	advmod
31	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 gone	nsubj
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	aux
33	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 tells	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	33 gone	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tells	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tells	cc
37	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tells	iobj
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 find	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 find	mark
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tells	xcomp
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 find	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	ghost		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	ghost not said here	pieces		ghost's legs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product
3	give	to-infinitive	ghost not said here		the dogs		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient
4	not promise speech: promise	must	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	ghost		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go	present · perfect	Hermod				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	present			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
9	find not said to happen	to-infinitive		ghost			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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