The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 115

She put it on the middle finger of her left hand, and told the youth to take a knife and try as hard as he could to cut her with it, for he would not be able to hurt her.

Who acts: maiden, youth, angel · What happens: put, tell, take, try, cut, not be · To what, where: ring, middle finger, youth, knife, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, youth, angel), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 finger	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 finger	det
6	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 finger	amod
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finger	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 knife	det
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 try	cc
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 hard	advmod
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 try	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hard	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cut	mark
29	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 try	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 able	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 able	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 able	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 able	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 able	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	cop
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cut	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 hurt	mark
41	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hurt	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	maiden	ring	the middle finger of maiden's left hand		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	maiden not said here	the youth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	a knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	try	infinitive	the youth not said here			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	cut	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	maiden		with ring	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient with it=Instrument
6	not is	would	angel			able property	tree rules
7	hurt	to-infinitive	angel not said here	maiden			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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.

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