The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 67

He is on this island; but it will be hard for you to get to him if you have no one to help you, for you cannot climb the cliffs by your own strength.

Who acts: Hermod, you · What happens: be, get, have, help, not climb · To what, where: island, Hermod, one, you, cliffs

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, 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	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 island	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hard	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hard	expl
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	cop
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	conj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	obl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 get	advcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 help	mark
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 one	acl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 climb	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 climb	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 climb	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 climb	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 climb	advmod
31	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hard	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cliffs	det
33	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 climb	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 strength	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 strength	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 strength	amod
37	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climb	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 island	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hermod			this island		tree rules
2	is	future	Hermod not said here				hard property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	you		Hermod			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
4	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	no one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	no one not said here	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
6	not climb	can	you	the cliffs			by your own strength	tree rules

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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