The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 56

He will then let you stand on his shoulders, so as to get out of the mound; but he means to cheat you all the same, and will catch you by the cloak to pull you back again; but you must take care to have the cloak loose on your shoulders, so that he will only get hold of that.’

Who acts: ghost, you · What happens: let, stand, get out, mean, cheat, catch · To what, where: you, shoulders, mound, care, cloak, hold

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), 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 let	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shoulders	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoulders	nmod:poss
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stand	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 mound	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mound	det
18	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 means	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 means	nsubj
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cheat	mark
24	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 means	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 cheat	obj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 same	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 same	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cheat	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 catch	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 catch	cc
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 catch	aux
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 cloak	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cloak	det
36	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 catch	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 pull	mark
38	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 catch	advcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 pull	obj
40	back	back	ADV	_	38 pull	advmod
41	again	again	ADV	_	38 pull	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 take	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 take	cc
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 take	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 take	aux
46	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	parataxis
47	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 take	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 have	mark
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 take	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 cloak	det
51	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obj
52	loose	loose	ADV	_	49 have	advmod
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 shoulders	case
54	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 shoulders	nmod:poss
55	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 loose	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 get	punct
57	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	62 get	mark
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 so	fixed
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 get	nsubj
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 get	aux
61	only	only	ADV	_	62 get	advmod
62	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 take	conj
63	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 get	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 that	case
65	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 hold	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
67	’	'	SYM	_	4 let	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	future	ghost	you		then		tree rules
2	stand	infinitive	you not said here		ghost's shoulders			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location
3	get out	to-infinitive	you not said here	the mound				tree rules
4	mean	present	ghost					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cheat not said to happen	to-infinitive	ghost not said here	you			same property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source
6	catch	future	ghost not said here	you			by the cloak	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	pull back	to-infinitive	ghost not said here	you		again		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result
8	take	must	you	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
9	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	the cloak			loose property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
10	get	future	ghost	hold of that				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
11	hold			that				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/56/